Entourage to Mail switchers: any advice?

After many years of heavy Entourage use, including many customized AppleScripts, I will be switching over to the whole Mail/Address Book/iCal/.Mac combo when Leopard comes next month.
I'd like to hear from any other power Entourage users that made the switch, and if there are any suggestions you'd offer, gotchas to watch for. If you're happy with the switch, what you miss, what you're glad about, if IMAP works any better than the way Entourage pummels it, if you use a .mac account to sync your Address/iCal info between multiple Macs, if you've found any good AppleScripters to hire for custom scripts, etc.
I was dreading learning One More Application, but now I'm kind of excited about the move. I do believe that Entourage won't be improved very much in its Office 2008 alteration, and I think the Mail combo is just going to continue to improve in the coming years. It's a good time to switch for me.

Definitely go for it. I have found the mbox structure to be so much easier to deal with than the single Entourage database file in terms of back ups, archiving and work flow integration.

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After 7 years of being a power Entourage user (it's the center of my business), I'm considering, for the first time, switching to the Mail/AddressBook/iCal combo. The main reason is the need to be accurately synced between all three of my Mac computers. I just switched all 9 of my email accounts from POP to IMAP, and I'm seeing what a complex thing it is with Entourage. For the first time, a .mac account makes a whole lot of syncin' sense.
I know this is an odd time for considering a move, since Leopard is about to come out (probably with improvements) and the next version of Entourage is scheduled for January. But given that, I'd love to hear from other Entourage-to-Mail switchers, especially those that use sync to keep multiple Macs up-to-date, AND anyone that customizes things with AppleScripts. I have had a dozen customized AppleScripts created for my workflow, and I'm wondering if Mail can be scripted to do similar things. I don't mind hiring an AppleScripter to redo all the scripts, I'm more concerned if Mail can actually do similar things.
Any words of advice from other Entourage-to-Mail switchers? Also: any AppleScripters out there for hire?

The contacts process is almost as easy as Mail.
Go to the Applications folder and open the Applescripts folder.
Open the Example Scripts folder.
Open the Address Book Scripts folder.
Choose Import Addresses.scpt
Double click on the script file and click on Run.
Choose Entourage from the menu and import from the Application.
It will launch Entourage and import your contacts.
If Entourage exports label information then Address Book is capable of using that information.
I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say "Categories associated with each contact."
Address Book has an Add Field menu choice under the Card menu to customize the categories of information and Edit Template lets you create whatever fields you are likely to need.
If you need to create directories or groups of addresses the file menu has the options.
You can also create Smart Groups.
There is excellent help in the Help menu, as well, to explain these options.
You may need to experiment a little, in order to create the appropriate template for the contact data to be imported into.
There is also information in Help under Importing contacts into Address Book with other ideas around importing and field labels.
You can test by creating new user accounts in system preferences and importing into the Address Book in another user.
This lets you experiment with the import.
It will help you to fine tune a Template and what method to use for the import.
This process is definitely faster than manually entering that many entries.

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I would open the Connection Doctor during a Chat (iChat's Video menu).
Check that both Bit Rates are relatively stable (there is always some variance.)
Anything over 5% particularly if over 500kbps is likely to be causing problems.
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Hello DRB1962
Check to make sure that you validated the device within your account on webmail.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
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Hello, mrselisec.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I would need more information regarding exactly what is happening when you attempt to send to an AOL email address to better assist you. However, he are a couple basic troubleshooting guide that may help with this issue.
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Mail
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