It's taking users from a D5 to a D6 site and while a mysql dump would
populate the user table -- I assume you mean just the user table -- if
there are any other modules hooked into user_save they would be skipped
with that approach. I suppose I can test to see if anythings hooked into user_save first. Do you know if in Drupal 6 a user_save affects any tables besides user -- not taking contributed modules into account?
Also, that module you pointed out hasn't been ported to 6 yet.
Best,
Sam