Today I went to the apple store in ALB. I was going to throw caution to the wind and upgrade but when I went to the apple the store. There were a couple of people who were working with genuises who were having problems with their upgrades. So I got scared off and just left.

I did overhear the genius tell one of the customers to archive and upgrade.

Here is an article from MacFixit.com
They are recommeding a archive or erase and install instead of the straight upgrade.