I'm planning to Upgrade. I had believed that I could do this from a local source (e.g disc) rather than retrieving everything remotely, which is slow/could possibly eat up a big chunk of my ISP download allowance).
I've looked at freebsd-update and the Handbook, but neither were relevant to what I had thought I could do, above.
The k3b configuration isn't retained in /home -
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=246
I've already looked at the Release Notes thanks, as well as the errata.