No. I can modify the odd bit of PHP and can slowly muddle my way through many things, but my understanding of what is being talked about in the upgrade procedure linked above coupled with the extensive branches off to other areas makes it so that I will NEVER be able to upgrade that way.
It is more likely that I'll try to begin again from a fresh installation and try to manually copy/paste my blog entries across. A bit of a PITA, but it's the only way I can see to migrate forward.
The point is I that I use SS as a communications tool and I am no longer wearing a developer hat (and when I did it was for a totally different coding language). I'd like to be able to run a script which migrates from version to another and not be messing with replacing statements, variables and function calls. I suspect I am not the only SS user with this point of view.
Regards,
Chris