I've managed to avoid upgrading a kernel up till now. How tricky is it on a scale of 1 - 10 for someone slightly above the level of complete incompetence?
If you have some idea of what hardware is in the system (or a .config file hanging aroudn from last time), then it's pretty simple, really. Some people find the kernel-package package in Debian is helpful, but I tend not to use it. I recommend make menuconfig...
Matthew