Fresh Windows 7 Installation on new drive -- LR3 questions

I bought a new SSD drive that I intend to use as my Windows 7 boot drive. I will do a fresh installation of Win 7 and reinstall all my applications. Lightroom 3 is currently installed on my older conventional drive in the C partition. That old drive will become a data drive.
1. As far as I can tell, all I need to do for LR3 is export my existing catalog to a temporary holding location (like a USB drive), install LR3 to the new drive, then import the catalog into the new installation. Is that all it takes to get me back to where I am now? I assume I will also need to re-register LR?
2. My SSD is smaller than my current C: partition so I want to limit it to Windows and required program files. I'll want to keep all data on a different drive. Some Windows programs, by default, store certain user data on the C drive. As far as I can tell, LR3 doesn't store user data on the C drive by default. It just stores the required files for running the program on C, and stores user data in locations specified by the user. Is that right?
3. Are there any other considerations, specific to LR3, when reinstalling the OS and the program?
Thanks.

Assuming your original image files are on a seperate drive to the boot drive then Copy or Move your catalog file (and the preview folder if you wish) to another drive, no need to export it. Just copy it back to whatever location you want once finished and open it from the new instillation. On no account re import files that are already referenced by a catalog. When you re start LR it should find the original files if the drive paths to wherever they are located remains the same, if not right click and relocate the files/folders.
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It is usually best to locate the catalog on a different drive to the OS and applications where this is possible. However if your SSD drive is large enough the performance gains from having the previews on the SSD may outweigh the performance gains from having them on a separate drive, it rather depends on how much space you have on the SSD.

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