PC suite being the old sw?

Here's what I am currently doing:
1. Created a backup using Backup-menu

2. using Ovi suite I restored my old phones' content onto my phone (destroying the new phones' history).

3. Using backup-menu create another backup.

4. On my PC using sqliteman I am now just merging the two databases, to do that I:
a. exported the new messages (events table) to sql statements
b. using sed/text search and replace removed the "id" field from all queries
c. ran the resulting queries on the db containing the old messages so that the new messages would be appended to the old.

The last step I expect will be to overwrite the el-v1.db file with the newly generated one and reboot the phone, the queries are still running at the moment so I'll know in a bit.