Did I screw up, or what?

[Haro-san]

Well I configured everything on my dev. server and was getting ready to start uploading and it dawned upon me that it "ain't gonna work"

Here's the delima... I installed configured... patched templates... ad nauseaum for drupal, vbdrupal, mediawiki & vbwiki, everything is ready to move to the production server. Since vB has a current dbase that doesn't include any of these systems if I export and import the current 4 apps.
OR
If I go in the other direction, I'd be moving vB dbase back to some way earlier version.

Now all I can think of is to move all the new stuff and redo everything manually. A whole bunch of work.

Anyway I can just update vB database to current on the dev server w/o trashing all the template changes, etc. and then import database and upload all s/w, overwriting what's there now.

Dumb... dumb... dumb...

Any help would be appreciated.