davelister
Please use a more technically meaningful title (see suggestion for the sick man at end of this post).
Please also remember that SME8 is still in beta release stage.
That means things can & do change & may need manual intervention.
It also means you need to be proactive in monitoring what is going on re development
progress changes etc, by watching & reading the bug reports, the
forums, & particularly the special pages setup for SME8 that provide
specific information.
On the main wiki page here
http://wiki.contribs.orgis a link to the SME8 page here
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8Scroll down that page to a section titled
Upgrading Samba
and follow the instructions.
Next time look more thoroughly first.
... apart from curl up in a corner and die
Well before you give up and do that, please see this website for a
very useful adjunct to any traditional treatment you are receiving.
Doctors may be able to kill off the nasty cells, but they are less
skilled at reprogramming the emotional & attitudinal underlying
factors that bring on disease (dis-ease or lack of harmony within ones self).
These Bach Flower Remedies are well proven & have been in use for over 70 years.
You may well find them very useful to assist your condition and keep it in permanent regression.
Find a good Naturopath who uses & prescribes the Bach Flower Remedies.
It is quite common to see need for the "Willow" remedy in cancer sufferers, and it sounds like you may also need "Gorse".
See
http://www.bachcentre.com/and
http://www.bachcentre.com/centre/remedies.htmand
http://www.bachflower.com/