cool.
i'm glad it worked for you.[

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i messed mine up several times before i figured that out.
.........thus the backups[:I]
if you had multiple brains to merge, then i guess after you installed everything, you could backup the successfully "merged" new brain and start over again. (merging a different one this time)
that is why i totally agree that there needs to be a brain "import/merge" tool, that would merge any compatible brain with the latest version. Or the installer should be able to merge multiple brains -- with different names than the default.
i think robert was working on that for a future hal update.
-the dude