Official oracle stance on portal 9.0.2 migrate/export/import

i have been working with oracle support, scouring the forums and deja and metalink, applying patches, standing on my head... trying to export my 9.0.2 portal applications, reports, pages and such from a 9.0.2 implementation into an exact same 9.0.2 implementation. i have run into issues with the reports, issues with the pages, corrupt objects that can't be deleted, most everything stated on this forum, plus more. i have asked oracle time and again when the migrate scripts [the FAQ still posted at technet and portalcenter STILL says the scripts will be available august/september] will be ready and have gotten no meaningful response. surely oracle cannot pretend that this export/import works and I NEED A REPLY FROM ORACLE AS TO THEIR OFFICIAL STANCE on this and as to when we can expect a working solution. i am going to have to recommend against oracle portal because we cannot get from our development environment into a testing one.

thanks... i do hope they can give us some expectation of when this will be ready for primetime. i couldn't get my pages across because i get a region not found error, so i tried just to import my provider applications that include rwreps with parameters. i figured worst case i could manually recreate the pages. the export indicates no errors, the import check mode indicates no errors, but the actual import gives me a warning on every portlet parameter and none of my reports come across:
sample warning i receive:
Importing portlet preferences ..........
Importing category/perspective info ..........
---------- Before Importing Pronto Tables ----------
*** Warning: no corresponding portlet parameter ID found on target for 295 for BUSINESS_UNIT
so i applied patch 2617359 per oracle support but no luck. apparently this is another bug being worked on by support [Bug:2644937 Abstract: IMPORT:PAGE:PRONTO:REPORT:SECURITY:PORTLET PARAMETER ID NOT FOUND IN LOG] but in the meantime i face the prospect of having to manually recreate 40 plus reports on each instance. this may or may not be related to bug 2426089 from version 3.0.9.x [Bug 2426089 Abstract: PARAMETERS ARE NOT VISIBLE AFTER REGISTERING THE REPORTS ON PORTAL]. i am still trying to come up with some way to get my reports across. i'm going to try exporting/importing just a report with nothing else and see what happens.

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(c) Copyright 2001 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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<snip>
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