How NOT to move a Blogger page

I found out something very unfortunate this weekend when assisting my pal, and fellow techblog contributer, Latin Jones move his blog to a dedicated host. Blogger allows you to either host your blog on their webspace, or on a webhost of your choosing using FTP. Previously LJ had his Lunchtime Review site hosted with Blogger at http://lunchtimereview.blogspot.com. We decided to buy lunchtimereview.com and move the Blog over to my webhost since I was recently increased from 5GB to 12GB. Everything was going fine until we went to preview the page. There were no images. When you move the Blog from their site to yours, it says it is publishing the blog, but it retains all of the HTML that points to the image locations on photos1.blogger.com. It seems that Blogger will only allow you to view these images when you post them on a blogspot.com site.

Our workaround was painful, and is still in progress. We used the firefox extension DownThemAll, to grab all the images from the old site, and then had to manually re-upload them to the new Blog. What a pain. Blogger really should make this more apparent when posting such FAQ articles like this one What happens if I switch publishing from Blogspot to another server. Maybe they should add something in bold that says:

Warning! If you move your Blog from blogspot.com to your own host, you will lose all of your images!