[stomachmonkey]

DD,

That won't work to migrate your Windows docs to the Mac. There are the OS diffs and I don't believe, could be wrong, but I have never seen a PC that can be booted to behave as an external Firewire hard drive like Macs can.

What you can do which I also did this week.

I have a work issued Dell laptop. I bring my personal Mac to work because I'm more productive. So the only thing the Dell is good for is logging onto MS Exchange. I could set up Exchange on my Mac but that means letting the corp IT guys touch it which is never going to happen.

Load up Parallels on the Mac then use a windows based migration or backup/image utllity to clone your Dell onto the Mac. That way you've got everything exactly as it was on your Dell while you get comfy on the Mac.