by Sam Thing.
And I'm glad I wasn't listening when you didn't say it....
The upgrade is going ahead as I type. Do you think running mysql 5.5.8 and not 5.5.31 will hurt much for a test site?
Why is upgrading mysql so intractable? I've googled and got my head round upgrading PHP in a trice but I'm happy to resort to a hack rather than try and continue down the rabbit hole of a mysql upgrade.
Oooo my upgrade has finished and now I have a nice shiny 2.7. Thanks Tim.