From free hosted to self hosted wordpress blog

I was blogging on custom domain blogger, for last 4 day-nights have been trying to shift to self hosted wordpress.

first, i created a test site moveye.wordpress.com, it worked great. It was fairly easy to import posts, comments and everythng from blogger to wordpress.com blog using import option.

the problem started when I tried to replicate moveye.wordpress.com to my self hosted wordpress site at DearCinema.com.
I’m listing the problems here:-
a) the wordpress my host installed lacked many controls, i checked and was told, this is the latest safe version 2.0.5, contacted other hosting companies, including they refused to install 2.2 citing security (!!!) reasons
b)I upgraded manually, reading instructions at wordpress.org
c) though the theme I’d selected Neo Sapiense worked great at wordpress.com, on self hosted I’d no control on the widgets?
d) finally thanks to this forum, somehow I widgetized it, but even though I moved around widgets default ones won’t go off..
e) with 2.2 or 2.0.5 self hosted import from blogger didn’t happen
f) when I create a new page, a top navigation won’t be created…
f) had no rich text editor
g) when I selected code, on write post/page,,the box to write in would disappear
h) there was tons of blank space at the bottom of page
h) considering I might have upgrade it wrong, I reinstalled the wordpress 2.0.5 provided by the hosting company and installed widget plug in, however, widget tab didn’t show up in the presentation menu
i) finally have requested install4free team to help me out and reinstall..in the process for last 4 days my site is down.

summary: had thought wordpress is easy to use, simple and great blogging platform, now think, first I should learn about PHP, HTML, CSS and all the stuff before thinking about blogging with wordpress.

my failed dram:
replicating http://moveye.wordpress.com at http://dearcinema.com,

never mind.