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> Certainly.  My definition of "*safely*" means having a full backup of  
> the system to which I can go back to if the OS version upgrade  
> doesn't work; if you don't have a good backup, well, you can probably  
> update from 5 to 6 just fine, but I would not consider doing so to be  
> completely safe.

"a fool and his data are soon parted."  -- monty williams

randy