10.4 upgrade - lost stuff

After my upgrade of my e-Mac from 10.3 to 10.4.10 , I can't find my iTunes Playlists. I did make a complete back-up of the hard drive before the upgrade but i don't know where to look on the external drive for what items, and what needs to be moved where.
Also can't find Entourage old mail, and mail address, and can't find firefox Favorites.
Where are these things stored?

Boba:
Drag and drop for documents and some applications will work fine. However, the are many hidden files that the system needs, that cannot be copied in that way.
The best method is to backup by cloning. If you have an external firewire HDD you can clone your entire drive as a bootable volume. In that way you will not only have a backup, but you will have an emergency boot drive.
There are many cloning software packages available, but in my experience I have found SuperDuper to be the easiest to use and most efficient. You can clone your entire HDD or only the Users Folder, which contains your data, your settings and your preferences etc. Dr. Smoke's FAQ Backup and Recovery has excellent ideas. He recommends the use of Retrospect which I have found to be difficult, hence my preference for SuperDuper.
If you have any further questions, please do post back.
Good luck.
cornelius

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