To Clean Install or Archive first, that is the dilemma

[Pedro Vera]

Greetings,

I am purchasing Panther this afternoon and I was almost sold on the 
idea of doing archive and install (which I know worked in my Ti Book as 
far as the first WDC beta) but now I am having flashbacks from my 
Windows years. Back in the day doing an upgrade over a MS OS was a 
recipe for disaster, so I conditioned myself to backup files and wipe 
the PC before doing the clean install. I trust the archive feature, 
what I don't trust is myself: I have too much crap in my Ti 867. I have 
an external firewire drive that I use to mirror the Ti book every day, 
so I will have full backups. Would it be worth it to force a clean 
install, then move from the firewire drive just the documents, the mail 
folder and my Safari favorites? This would ditch any preference files 
left behind by deleted applications. Only problem is I would still need 
to pull my bundled apps from the restore DVD for my Ti book.

Am I wasting my time with the archive and install? Or is it worth it to 
let it do a clean install. By the way, I want to get rid of Classic. I 
have not run a single OS 9 app in this laptop since the day I purchased 
it.

Thanks,

Pedro
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