Home office with MacbookPro

Hi Mac People ... I have a 15" MacbookPro that goes everywhere I go. I am a heavy user. I am taking on more marketing-related responsibilities and will be needing more screen space for running Aperture, iMovie, iBookAuthor, mail, im, Pages, Stickies, etc.  I'm shopping for helpful components to create a user-friendly home office in the corner of my dining room. Big win ... I've convinced my wife to allow installation of dual monitor arms mounted on wall. And I have the chair arriving today. Here are my questions ....
1) Can I hook up the MacbookPro to display and run programs across multiple monitors?
2) Is there a wireless keyboard you would recommend? Wireless mouse?  (presuming better then working off macbookpro keyboard)
3) if I have cabled monitors, wireless keyboard and mouse ... then the Macbook Pro can be left untouched while I'm working?  
4) are there other wireless devices to be considered to make the workspace optimal? 
Thank you!

Hi - I saw your post and am hoping you can help us, too.
We have an iMac with the following specs:
  Model Name: iMac
  Model Identifier: iMac4,1
  Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
  Processor Speed: 2 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores: 2
  L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
  Memory: 2 GB
  Bus Speed: 667 MHz
  Boot ROM Version: IM41.0055.B08
  SMC Version: 1.1f5
We are currently running CS3 Suite on it but would like to upgrade to CS4. Can you tell me if this will handle it?  We can not afford to upgrade to CS5 right now because we would have to do it on 2 - 3 computers. We can buy the CS4 upgrade.
All we really need is to upgrade is Acrobat, Indesign and Illustrator, if that's an option. We don't need all the extra apps.
I'd appreciate any feedback.  If we can't upgrade this Mac we might have to switch to a PC.
Thanks in advance,
Bec

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