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A great addition to a SharePoint administrator's toolbox are Gary Lapointe's custom STSADM commands (comands, source code and Powershell vesions available at SharePoint Automation).

His commands are still dependent on the underlying Microsoft API's, however. And especially the ones concerning content publishing are somewhat prone to having bugs, and require paching and hotfixing.

For example, you need to apply the two hotfixes KB939592 and KB939654 to solve a versions problem for both the standard STSADM export/import command as well as for his custom exportlist/importlist commands.