Restore SharePoint publishing homepage to Pages/default.aspx

I have a Publishing site and the last SharePoint administrator copied /Pages/default.aspx to /default.aspx and set it as the homepage, so now I have two independent copies of the same page to maintain.

I want to delete the /default.aspx and reset the HomePage to /Pages/default.aspx. I can set the "Welcome" page back to /Pages/default.aspx through the settings page, but the /default.aspx page still shows as the homepage in SharePoint Designer. When I try to rename or delete it warns me that I'm deleting the h开发者_JAVA百科omepage and x numbers of links point to it.

Any suggestions on how to effectively do this?

Should I set the welcome page and change the /default.aspx to a redirect page or just delete it?