Is DPS more important than Damage?

[Rev]

Higher Damage is more important as it affects your skills damage as well as to negate the armor of the enemy.
If you are doing 10 damage at 0.5 seconds, your dps is 20 dps.
If you are doing 15 damage at 1 second, your dps is 15 dps.
The 20dps weapon seems to be better.
However, if the enemy has 10 armor, you will be doing 0 dmg to the enemy with your 20dps weapon.
The 15dps weapon however, will be still be able to do 5 dmg per second.

Excellent...
so what is this about the skills damage coinciding with or affecting weapon damage??
if there is a short answer can u tell me here, if not maybe you could point me to the thread discussing this.
thanks everyone...I have been here all day and am a better person (*ahem) gamer for it.