Now it's gone from Mint 8 to Mint 9 without much issue except for one package that doesn't seem to be working out.
In order to finish the upgrade I had to remove mint-meta-gnome which, the notes about upgrading from Mint 7 to 8 explained. The upgrade notes about Mint 8 to 9 don't mention this process so I figured it out on my own. Now my only issue is getting the Mint-meta-gnome package re-installed. It's apparently related to a grub2 splash, Synaptic errors message...
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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/grub2-theme-mint_1.0.3_all.deb: unable to open '/boot/grub/linuxmint.png.dpkg-new'I don't really even know if I need this package, everything appears to be working perfectly so, maybe it's just an old package hung up....?
For reference to anyone else upgrading via apt, this same package kept hanging up the upgrade so I used the -f (force) option to get past it. At one point I even opened Synaptic and let it upgrade as well....for some reason Synaptic would upgrade when apt from a terminal was stuck so, I got all the way done with this one broken package. Honestly a fresh install is faster and cleaner but it's pretty cool that you can go from Mint 7 to 8 and now to 9 just by upgrading.
Now if I could solve this one issue it's all good.