[Jerm]

Thanks for the input, gentlemen. I'm making sure I have fresh backups of everything then I'm gonna give Acronis Universal Restore a shot. (supposedly you can do a complete backup of apps and everything independent of hardware configuration and restore it to a completely different machine) So, I'll see how that works and worse case scenario...start completely from scratch.
Thanks again...it's nice not to think I'm completely alone.

...not that it matters, but I'll post results here when/if I migrate to the new machine.