Standard upgrade; if you have mods to your source (like most of my clients do) I try to merge them in (though I try to only do that for semi recent builds).
But I never leave a forum broken, but from that old of a forum to *now* I usually request PHPMyAdmin access to your server so that I can fix things when the 7.3 upgrade portion breaks (like it usually does).
Will be out of town on Thursday though
