Hi. Any thoughts about shifting to grub 2?

yes; I talked to juerg some months ago and he said GRUB2 is too overloaded.
 
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# [ ! $(uname -r | grep "paldo") ] && rm -rf /*

It is somewhat overbuilt, but has some advantages. Grub 0.97 isn't really being maintained anymore, so the move to grub 2 would seem to be inevitable.