[Don Plumley]

You might appreciate this: My wife was using my daughter's macbook for the past year. When I set up my wife's new computer, it took me maybe 30 minutes to install office, copy over the firefox, thunderbird and other settings along with her files - most of that time was waiting for files to transfer over the NAS. The first time she opened firefox, not only do the bookmarks come over but so does the browsing history, stored passwords, etc. along with all the email settings, etc. 100% identical to her original setup. That's a 1/2 day or more process for me on Windows. BTW, you can use Mozbackup on a win box to bring over to the mac. Bringing over the itunes library (with ratings, etc.) is a little more complicated, but not for a tech geek like you.