Hey Dave.
I will agree here with your range. For that spec, which is on pretty much the lowest end we usually go, we would charge 5k.
We stopped working on projects less that that about a year ago, although we do take on one or two odd ones that are just in need of some help.
In this industry, you have to educate your client and market the value the website is to them. I have read Brendon Sinclairs Web design business kit from sitepoint and it covers this a lot. There is nothing regarding coding or actual web design in it. It's all about the client side of stuff and charging what you're worth. Perceived value.
The clients that want a 100 page super flash ecommerce store with all the latest ajax bells and whistles and want a 12 month
SEO contract signed all for less than 5k are not the clients you want.
Good clients know what they want. Most good clients know they will have to pay for that if they want it done right.
I have seen ripe and they are simply Templatemonster resellers. Their own site is a TM template. In fact, I'm quite sure it is against TM TOS to claim the designs as your own. (I don't know for sure if Ripe are actually doing that).
We have turned down so much business because most people who want a website for less than 5k want more than 10k worth of work and sometimes, it's impossible to get through to them. A lot of our business is actually businesses that come to us after having a design done by sub 5k company that they were not happy with.
As I have said over and over, it's all about educating your potential client. That's one of the reasons YOU have a website.
It's late, I better stop ranting, but there is a good discussion on this over at the enterprise-ireland mailing list.