well i've done what i think i was supposed to do.
I made sure i had backups of my wallet.dat file in two locations.
I deleted the wallet.dat in my app roaming folder. I downloaded presstab's qt. I ran the qt. I closed the qt. I opened the app roaming folder and removed the new dat file and planted my old wallet.dat file in there. I ran the new Tekcoin client. My coins showed up.
How can we tell if we did it right?
I know over time, of course, we will be able to tell if we aren't staking.
You're good. You didn't actually have to delete the wallet file, but that causes no harm. Now you wait for block 506500 like the rest of us

For the tests, we had the fork at an earlier block (which of course would have screwed up the coin if issued live), but other than that, it's the same wallet. Thundertoe and I both staked within a few blocks of the test fork. I think it will be pretty dramatic come the fork

I suspect there will be a LOT of orphans the first few days after the fork. Just because there will be so many people competing for stake.
Also, I haven't spoken to the developers yet today, but hopefully the version number thing will be fixed in git. But there's gonna be a majorly upgraded wallet soon, so maybe they'll just let it go. If you got it from Presstab or Argakiig's link, or compiled from the master github link after the announcement, you're good.