too many pages will only hurt you if they are duplicate pages. If they have unique content on each page, it will actually be very beneficial.
Use each unqiue page and optimize it for that page's content.
Suffice to say, if you have a good site with good content, the sum of your sub pages will often generate more search engine traffic than your main page.
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