Working on a simple document migration tool

I'm kinda fed up at the migration tools for SharePoint (and maybe I'm just still steamed at the fiasco I went through yesterday). Using SPIN and SPOUT was to get everything (with history) from 2001 to 2003. My plan was, once migrated into the SharePoint Document Libraries, to just copy these things down to where they belong. Now I'm on the warpath to write a proper migration tool. One step read from 2001 to write into 2003. It's all there via Web Services and the old SharePoint 2001 OM. Why is this so difficult? All the tools that Microsoft gives you are for mass migrations and assume you want to maintain security and copy all the profiles, etc. 2003 is a completely different beast architecturally and makes you think differently about the way your organize your information. Yes, there are some other commerical tools that might do this but again these are just not quite right. And to top it off, nothing ever seems to work from your desktop. You have to be running right on the SharePoint servers directly. This is just not right and I'm out to fix it (somehow). Back later with the results of my madness...

One other note from yesterdays blog, Addy Santo has posted a commont about an an excellent deployment tool which assists both in migrations and deployments, and can take most of the pain out of the process. There wasn't much to check out but I'm going to investigate this and see if this can assist with what I'm trying to do here.