I'm ready for 10.5 - what should I back up for a clean install?

Hello
I'm ready to install my newly-purchased 10.5 DVD.
I want to do a clean install. What should I back up before I do so in order to insure that nothing is lost?
I have already copied my entire user folder (except for the items that were permissions locked) to an external 500GB firewire. What else should I copy and how?
Thanks,
-----------S

OK, your user folder is backed up. That's a good start.
Generally what I do is take the current hard drive out of the computer, and put in a blank one (preferably a bigger drive too!).
Leopard's kind of an iffy upgrade, so what I'd do is this:
1) Make a clean install of TIGER. Run the updates.
2) Install all applications using a new user called "Administrator"—I mean anything you can think of....MacTheRipper, VLC, etc. Everything. Update all the apps.
3a) Copy over your user folder into the Users folder in the root of the drive. Go to Accounts in the System Preferences, and click on the + sign beneath the Users, and add a user with the same name and type in the same name you used on your old build. Enter the same short name, password, etc. It will give you the option to restore that user account if it is seen there.
OR
3b) Create a new user account, and start up in that user account. Copy pictures, music, documents, and desktop from the old user to their respective folders in the new location. DO NOT START UP MAIL, ADDRESS BOOK, or iCAL BEFORE THIS! Go to your User account's library. Move Mail & Safari from the old user library to the new one. Go to Application Support, and move over the files for Address Book and iCal (Yahoo Messenger, Skype, and Firefox are other ones to move if you have them in there). Go back to the User Library, and move over com.apple plists (from Preferences) for Addressbook, iChat, iCal, Mail, Safari. Try each of those applications to make sure the data transferred.
4) Repair Permissions.
Now you have a clean build of TIGER. SuperDuper it so you have a bootable backup of your new system on an empty firewire drive.
5) Update from Tiger to Panther. Play with it for a while. See how you like it. If you like it, keep it and move on from there. If you don't, you have a clean build of Tiger to use. I'm reverting back to Tiger because Panther is kind of slow on my machine, and it offers few real advantages. It's worth sticking to Tiger for me until I get through my current work cycle and hope Apple has fixed a few issues by then.
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