>One more thing. If you manually reinstall everything, it is a really >good chance to spring clean your environment. Migration Assistant will >copy apps which you haven't used for years :-)
This is true. I've done it both ways. The one semi-successful method that Apple has is the Archive & Restore when reinstalling the OS from DVD. It will save everything from the Users folder on up, but apps that operate primarily at the root level, like Retrospect, Norton or Stuffit, need to be reinstalled from scratch. In some thorny trouble-shooting modes, I have intentionally worked from a clean slate and the original install CD's or disk images. It amounts to a weekend watching progress bars, however. I just did a G5 -> Mac Pro, and was absolutely blown away at how seamless the process was. Tony -- Anthony R. Sanna SACO Foods, Inc. 1-800-373-7226 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
