Changing HD on macbook

Three questions:
1. I am thinking of upgrading my 60gig HD that my MacBook came with to 80 possibly even 120 Gig. I think it allows the user to change the HD without voiding the warranty, am I right?
2. How do I switch HD without loosing my data. In other words, if I take it out and put the other one back in, whats the procedure to have the computer up and runnign after that.
3. Anyone knows of a good place (online) to buy HDs for MacBook?
Thanks in advance and sorry if these are newbie questions.
Thanks,
Huckster

2. How do I switch HD without loosing my data. In
other words, if I take it out and put the other one
back in, whats the procedure to have the computer up
and runnign after that.
If you want to start over with a fresh install, all you have to do is swap out the drives and re-install OS X with the recovery discs your MacBook came with. All your existing data will be stuck on your old drive.
If you already have important data on the machine you'll need an external SATA enclosure to put your new drive into before you do the swap. This will allow you to clone your existing system to the new drive and pick up right where you left off after you swap out the drives. You will also be able to use the old HD as extra storage after the switch. I picked up a cheap enclosure from newegg.com that did the trick for cloning but wasn't made for a notebook drive.
Along the same lines, if you already have a standard PATA Firewire or USB external backup disc, you can clone to that, swap out the drives, and clone back to the new drive. You will probably have to boot off of the 1st recovery disc after the swap and use the Disk Utility > Restore option to get your existing data onto the new drive.
I purchased my 120 GB drive from OWC. If they offered anything bigger I would have gotten it

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