Spent an interesting morning, re-crash coursing my way through a quick Linux install using Ubuntu's Wubi installer in order to help out a long distance friend who had some WordPress importing issues from Blogger. Took a little time to get WordPress going on Ubuntu (Linux) 9.04; had to also relearn how to do symlinks and permissions. Finally got it all working together and did a test export of my own blogger entries (converted to an XML file) and imported into WordPress.

The findings essentially proved my friend's hosting provider probably did not have WordPress installed or configured correctly. Next steps involve finding a more amiable WordPress supported host provider, if the current provider will not help.

Like I said: Interesting morning.