yes the "control in hands of others" part is what got me thinking
I've installed wordpress on another domain to try out and it seems great up until now, I'll think I'll try it for a week and if I still like it as much as I do now I definetely will change my other blogs to it.
I see they actually have an "import from blogger" feature as well, which will make my life so much easier, if it works ok that is...