Upgrade from Snow Leopard vs. Clean Install of OS X Lion

With all the problems that have been reported, and continue to be reported here, what is the general feeling here when it comes to installing OS X Lion?
Are you better off to do a clean install versus upgrade to OS X Lion from Snow Leopard, or does it not matter at all?
I'm not looking to solve a problem here, but maybe our discussions here could solve other peoples' problems.
Thank you,
Marcus

If your machine is running well and without issue and
if you have checked everything out with various disk
and hardware utilities and they say everything is fine,
then upgrade should not be an issue.  But remember,
s*** happens and you could end up with alot of issues,
some just coincedentally occurring with the upgrade.
Make sure you have a restorable backup (clone or
Time Machine) just in case.
Now, if over time you have accumulated a lot of flotsam
and stuff you don't need or want, then a clean install is the
way to go.  You will at least have some piece of mind that
any issues that occur, aren't caused by some obscure piece
of code loaded years ago that has just been carted along
and now rears its ugly head and is near impossible to identify.
Also, if intending to do a clean install, reformat the hard drive
with the write zeroes option enabled.  This will take longer but
will force the drive to map out any bad sectors that may have
accumulated over time. 
As for myself, I had gone the upgrade route on my three Macs.
Well, my score is 2 for 3.  My iMac and Macbook Pro went just
fine and are working well.  My Mac Mini on the other hand had some
serious issues, some of which are still unresolved.  All of them
related to its use as a media center for my home entertainment
system.  Probably, some one using as just a computer platform
may not even see the issues.  I haven't tried a clean install just
yet for the reasons that Barney-15E had mentioned.

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