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I have the new system up and running (on a different site first, for testing.) Everything went pretty smoothly. I grabbed the old site contents with an HTML scraper I built, and loaded it into the new database running locally on my imac. Then I used mysqldump to get a textfile of the local database, sent it back up to the remote server, deleted the old database (gulp,) and loaded in the new one from the mysqldump file. Took down all the old scripts and put up all the new ones. Took about one hour, plus two more to fix a bunch of stuff I hadn't thought of in my planning. Not too bad.
So I'm on schedule. I'm hoping the users on that site will find any obvious bugs this week while I try yet again to write some help files. It will be a triumph if I can finally make myself do this task.
If all goes well I'll have this site changed over by the end of the month. Theoretically I could have it done in two weeks, but let's just say one month. No sense getting carried away.