How can I sync at least 2 hard drives my G4?

I have now 4 hard drives on my MAC 1.25 GHz Power PC G4.
The reason I have so many, I run out of space working with many large movie files all at one time.
Unfortunately my Mac system, applications, mail, internet, composer and movie applications are all on the smallest of these drives.
I have the same administrator password for all 4.
I still have the mail, address books, bookmarks within Netscape on the same small drive. I run a website pertaining to collector trail bikes, with personal ads being placed by others about these bikes, so my mail boxes are big and very important.
I can only move them to Safari and Mac Mail the first time these applications are opened, but the first time the system opens the new drive Safari automatically starts to connect over ADSL to tell me about new updates. Therefore there is no way in the real world for an active mail box to make this transition.
So maybe I have to keep it all in Netscape, but like to move it to another bigger drive. I have put another SYS 10.3.9 plus all relevant App's on one of the other bigger drives, but cannot move any bookmarks, address books, security keys between the 2 drives having the system on it, unless I establish a new DIFFERENT USER ID on the second drive, wich then does not allow me to move anything from the older drive and its user ID.
I'd like to access everything from either drive.
Is there a way to sync the 2 drives using the same user ID?
Can it be done without having a .Mac account?
MAC 1.25 GHz Power PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hi Number22,
There are two softwares available (that I know of) that will "clone" the smaller drive to the larger one.
Carbon Copy Cloner (free.. all they ask for is donations):
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
and SuperDuper (also free... unless you want more options):
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
By-the-way, as 'firemandan900' pointed out, your chances of getting answers are greater if you posted in the correct forum.
Gary

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