It worked!

Yay! My computer and I went through the upgrade and update nicely and (pretty) smoothly. Phew! Macs are lovely, but boy, do they have a way of making your heart stop sometimes, especially if the resident IT guy (poor Ant) is a PC person and the user (that's me) is only somewhat technically informed. But it could have been worse. Like if I actually broke something and not just entertained the guys at Melrose Mac by forgetting to take the front panel off the optical drive's tray...
So I'm back, but all of my interesting stuff is on the backup drive. So yeah, not even a kitty photo to keep you entertained. Sigh, how cruel of me... I promise to rectify the situation as soon as possible.