Erik Steffl wrote:

I have an old drupal page that uses drupal 4.5.8, I'd much rather fresh-install 4.7.3 then go through probably (I guess) error prone upgrades.

is there any way to migrate content from old 4.5.8 drupal installation to new 4.7.3 installation? I only want to migrate stories etc., not setup/themes etc.

I think this is a good question. I am in a similar situation with one site that I support. I think it might even still be on Drupal 4.4.

While I have some ideas about how to do it, I would like to hear from anyone who has any experience with attempting it, or from anyone who has technical ideas about how to make such a process feasible or easier.

One possibility for a starting place might be the import/export API work done by Jeremy Epstein (Jaza) in his recent Summer of Code project. I have not looked at it and do not know it's capabilities, certainly with respect to much older releases, but I hear it is quite comprehensive and well implemented.

..chrisxj