I've personally had good luck with SP2, so I would say give SP2.1 a chance.
You 'could' try my multiple install trick and have both on your system (like me)...
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As far as patching is concerned, I've always liked to go from SP0 to whatever, insted of SP0 to SP1 then SP1 to whatever. It's less risky that way.
Mike Wilson
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