Janet- Just want to thank you for your advice, and if you don't mind I am calling on you again! I put all fears aside and started the conversion. Two days ago I had the copper level tested and bought metal magic. Before I put it in I had to raise the PH higher than 7.5(according to instruction) I used PH up that I had and it brought it up to over 8.2. I added the metal magic yesterday morning and checked the PH late last night and showed it to be 6.8. My first question is- will metal magic lower the PH or is it because I had no chlorine or copper in it. I went back to the pool store today to have the copper tested before I added the chlorine. He said the levels were low enough to add it now. I went a head with shock and chlorine tablets since I was there and did not have time to run and get bleach. He seemed to think I would not have to continue to add metal magic but do you think that I should seeing how there still shows copper levels of .3. He also said my PH was still down 6.9 and the alkalinity was 50, but I did not need to worry about it that it should pull up on its own after it was stable. Does that sound right to you? Do I need to add increaser to both at this point? I guess overall I just want some reassurance that I am on the right track, and doing what needs to be done in the order it needs to be done. As of 30 miuntes ago the numbers are as followed:

Total Chlorine 3ppm
Ph 6.8
alkalinity 50
cya 30ppm

Right now all I have is the Walmart test kit and I am not sure how to check the Free Chlorine. I hope this makes sense and any info you have would be greatly apprecaiated.

Michelle