Migrate Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.10

Warning this is dangerous and should be treated with the utmost caution I would suggest.
1) Backup copy of /etc folder
2) Backup all . folders in home folder
3) Don't forget any folders you might have there for specific apps
4) Check /opt to see what's in there you might need to re-install specific versions
5) For emacs copy .emacs and .emacs.d in home folder and make sure you aware of all you've added to emacs

After install my samba shares are not working as samba is not creating /etc/samba/smbpasswd I've tried touching the file and setting perms to 644 to no avail when I smbpasswd -a no errors.
Searched google etc. but