Thanks for your input; I've bookmarked it against the dreaded day.
I say a prayer for my deuced Mac(hina) every night.
And the longer you put it off the bigger and more daunting the change will be. I confess to being a chronic early adopter, but the upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion was completely problem free. Yes there were changes and some things, as with every OS X upgrade, moved to a new home, but those were relatively minimal as I had kept up with the changes through the OS X generations. The longer you put it off, the more changes there will be and the steeper the learning curve you will have to climb.
