By the way, a few people have asked on how they should be upgrading their SilverStripe version. Its really easy, but I thought I'd write a wiki page anyway:
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Cool - I'll test it tonight on a shared host of mine. There's a version of PHP 5 on there that doesn't have the mbstring module, so this should be a good test.
Cheers,
Sean