I understand why hosting companies buy other companies, and I also understand that from time to time you need to move things to a new server (kinda like copying all your pictures and video to a new hard drive for safe keeping.) Sadly, any time this is done with a dynamic website (aka database driven), there is always the possibility of a glitch or failure.
So here I sit, everything backed up as of last Friday, fingers crossed, waiting until Saturday morning to ensure everything still works. And if not, I may have some serious work ahead of me.