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Since Mint is based on Debian and Ubuntu, would it be possible to develop a converter method/process to convert from Ubuntu (10.04 for example) to a relative version of Mint without doing a complete backup and then fresh install of Mint and all the applications used when the system was running on Ubuntu?

Yes that is possible and should only take a few minutes.
Here's how: http://www.khattam.info/howto-convert-u ... 08-20.html

(remember to back everything up beforehand in case it all goes pear shaped)