Recently we have begun the arduous process of upgrading a site from Joomla 1.0.15 to Joomla 1.5.3.  The manual upgrade from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 is not as 'simple' as they promote.  The FIRST sign of a problem is the migration component became hung - the output for the My SQL dump was corrupted.  The next step, re-run the migration script ...