Are Stickies in StickiesDatabase? I need to backup bad system in Disk Mode

My friend has a PowerBook G4 with a pretty corrupt OS 10.3 on it. I'm praying I'll be able to get it started in FireWire Target Disk Mode so I can backup files, then I'll re-install the OS.
Are the Stickies kept in ~/Library/StickiesDatabase ? If I just copy that file would that allow me to later restore if necessary?
(I'm a tech-y person so feel free to give me complicated instructions, I'll probably understand them)

Jason:
Have you tried repairing the installation on the PB? That is usually the least intrusive and safest option.
If you are able to boot into Firewire Target Disk Mode you can use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to make a compressed disk image of the entire Users Folder you can later restore. Then you can do an Archive and Install and still have everything intact.
And, yes, "Stickies kept in ~/Library/StickiesDatabase".
Cheers
cornelius

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My friend has a PowerBook G4 with a pretty corrupt OS 10.3 on it. I'm praying I'll be able to get it started in FireWire Target Disk Mode so I can backup files, then I'll re-install the OS.
Where would I find Safari 1.x bookmarks? Can I just copy a file to backup the bookmarks and possibly later restore them?
(I'm a tech-y person so feel free to give me complicated instructions, I'll probably understand them)

Hi Jason,
You can find the Bookmarks in the following location.
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I think my hard drive is broken and I need a backup - urgent!

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Alsoft did not get in touch by the time I had my Apple store appointment. At the Genius Bar, the Genius who was helping me tried Target Disk Mode as well as a few other tests to determine if it was the cable attaching the hard drive or the hard drive itself that was broken. It turns out the hard drive was the problem and there was nothing that could be done to recover the files. I asked if I could keep the hard drive and, being under Apple Care, I could buy it for 157 euros (about $225), which I agreed to do before I left.
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