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My Wordpress blog doesn't have anything very important and I very rarely post to it, but in any case it's set to auto-update.

I think you'll find that once you've upgraded to the current version then setting the auto-update option is easy. Of course, if you have specially formatted pages and stuff then you might not want auto-upgrades as although they may keep your site secure, they may also break the layout of your blog.