Thanks Foxpup and Decoded.

I am backed up, just need to upgrade now. What I meant by another wallet was put a new Bitcoin/Qt wallet on a different computer and the put the wallet file into that.

Qt 4.8.3
I haven't opened it in a few years. The last time I did I gave up on syncing after a few weeks. So, I start it up a few days ago and right now I have 62,450 blocks remaining. Minutes go by faster than the blocks. Every thing I have read says you need to sync before upgrading but this will take 6 months plus.  My questions are, can I backup my wallet.dat, update and not loose my coins without syncing? Or, can I save my wallet.dat, download another wallet on a different PC and put my wallet.dat into that wallet? Any advice or links would be appreciated.

Thanks.