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lorax - 4:44 pm on Dec 3, 2012 (gmt 0)
That article is about mapping an existing WP.com blog over to a sub-domain on a TLD hosted by you (eg not on WP.com). It's not quite the same thing.
Why not just create a new install on the domain you want to use then xfer the data to the new site?