Pageroute is not directing me to the right place

I create a page called my_profile as a view made up of different sub profiles (general, likes, books,etc). Each sub profile is a nodeprofile content type with a usenode parent. Each sub profile has a page and block view. The menu is my_Profile and submenus under this are general, events, and likes.

a) Description of what I did
ii) I created my_profile in view (admin->site building-> views) and used node->usernode, published, and current user is author as my filters
iii) The various sub_profiles were also created from views. Each subprofile is a block and a page. I created general as one such subtab of my_profile menu
iv) I used pageroute for the input pages
(1) my_profile/general/edit_profiles as the path on the admin-> sitebuilding->pageroute->editroute.
(2) “input” for the lonely node management page
(3) “view” for the lonely node view page

v) Questions:
(1) It would not let me designate just my_profile/general as the path on the editroute page. It gave me an error that it was already taken. Was that because I setup a view with the same path name?
(2) my_profile/general/edit_profiles/input works
(3) my_profile/general/edit_profiles/view gives me a page not found error
(4) Is there a way to directly access the input and view pages without having to create a view. It seems like a waste of time to create a view, and have to read through the entire database if the URL is accessible

vi) The behavior I wanted:
(1) my_profile/general I would get the view page of what I entered and then when I click on my_profile/general/input I would get the input page. I hit submit on the page and I would be taken back to my_profile/general which ahs the view of what was just inputted.