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On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Jason Slack wrote:

> but had to sell my MacBook so my Fiance and I could get
> into a new apartment together.

I've seen plenty of apartment buildings with a "no dogs" policy, but  
this seems to be going too far.

> I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am  
> not one
> to continually wipe and reload my machine,

As many others pointed out, upgrading is easy.  Read the manual about  
using csup to track source changes and then just follow the  
instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING

Cheers,

-j