Well I've been fiddling around with Leopard for a few days now and am fully back up and running. The entire process was hassle free.

This is the process I followed:

1. took an image with carbon copy cloner to my external drive
2. took a second image with CCC to my external drive
3. then copied my documents folder to the external drive
4. the booted of my OS X 10.4 CD and used Disk Utility to take a clone of the entire hard drive to my external disk.

5. Inserted the OSX 10.5 CD and started the install
6. I think the term is "nuke 'n pave"

Done.

All the good stuff you've probably heard about is true.. it's all good!

Even on my MacBook Leopard is quite a bit faster in just about everything.

Updates as the come in...

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