Accomplishment for the night: a WordPress update from 3.5.1 to 4.1.1.  In most systems, that’s a well-planned out affair.  The combination of a ‘what the heck’ attitude this evening by me, and a push-button upgrade by WordPress means that I made a major upgrade with nothing more than an XML export without suffering any (at least thusfar noticed) undue effects.   Well done, WordPress!   No login to my hosting environment to rescue my database, no even import from the afore-mentioned XML export.  My theme came over successfully, even though I’ve hacked it up…  Again, well done!  May my development efforts handle software upgrades as successfully as you have!