MarkSteven –
Thank you again for the insight and the suggestions. I was in fact able to get everything moved over by building out a dummy 3.5 site with the 0.7 Connections plugin, I then manually upgraded WP to the latest and the Connections plugin to the latest as well. For some reason, the tables are named differently in the SQL backend (WPNF_ predicate not WP_ ??)so for that little problem I literally just scraped out the SQL from the old site and dropped it into the new one, renaming the tables to what Connections was looking for. It all works BUT (isn’t there always a ‘but’?) I have one remaining issue: the images are all located in individual subfolders under the /uploads/connection_images rather than just all being in the main folder. For example, say I have an image named ‘image1.jpg’, the path would be …/uploads/connection_images/image1/image1.jpg I am at a loss to figure out how to correct this simply. I was hoping there was something in the database or the PHP that I could modify but ??? You are the expert here dude :)
I would be glad to have you login to the development site and take a look if you would like.
Thank you very much Steven and I have advised the client to buy the premium plugin as you have been very forthcoming with assistance.
Mark