so I've gotten my account setup, and I transferred my domain to Hostony's registrar. Should I now delete my host records from my current DNS system? I ask becuase I thought I should, so I did... but now I can't even get to the temp address Hostony gave me to use when I try to go to http://<serverIP>/~<username> I get an error saying my domain name can not be found i'm not even trying to go to my domain name yet...

also, how do I request shell access so I can better manage my site? I've never had to manage a site over ftp before and i'll need to make mulitple updates to the mysql database in order to get it the site running on a new server.

which brings up another point... I guess I just upload my sql dump and then contact support to have the db created and imported?

Please open a trouble ticket and provide whole info (server, temporary link, etc)

having just setup my account, I'm afraid I don't know how to do what you ask. could you provide a bit more detail?

You can open trouble ticket here:
http://support.hostony.com/

Login and pass are the same as for your billing

If you are not able to login by means of your billing password you can use this link as help: http://forum.hostony.com/index.php?showtopic=3424