How to be sure TM has backed up all important settings?

Well, I have partitioned my new external hard drive so that I can just use some as storage for my loads of pictures and documents that I don't need to access all of the time. I have also ran a Time Machine Backup so that I have everything backed up for now.
I want to do a full restore, wiping everything clean and starting over. I do, however, want to restore my settings in particular programs like Mail and I have a few programs that I will need to re-load like Microsoft Office, Ecto, etc...
What does Time Machine save? What will I need to manually go back up? I just feel clueless on how to successfully do this without any major losses. Thanks for your help.

rhihug wrote:
Well, I have partitioned my new external hard drive so that I can just use some as storage for my loads of pictures and documents that I don't need to access all of the time. I have also ran a Time Machine Backup so that I have everything backed up for now.
I want to do a full restore, wiping everything clean and starting over. I do, however, want to restore my settings in particular programs like Mail and I have a few programs that I will need to re-load like Microsoft Office, Ecto, etc...
What does Time Machine save?
everything.
What will I need to manually go back up?
nothing.
I just feel clueless on how to successfully do this without any major losses. Thanks for your help.
when you do a full system restore from TM it restores the entire hard drive to the state it was in at the backup time. so provided you haven't excluded anything from TM backups you don't have to back up anything manually.
to do a full restore, boot from the install DVD and choose 'restore system from backup" from the Utilities menu at the top.

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