OS X 10.4.7 and formatting drive

Hello, I'm in a dilemma:
I should format and initialize the system hard disk, because I have to install the OS X 10.4.7 and my old OS (10.3.9) was too loaded, it become too slow and now, after updating to the 10.4.7, it is more worse than before!
I'd like to backup the system settings/preferences; so I'll copy the entire hard disk to an external drive; I'll also run the iBackup to save all the system settings (safari favourites, mail, etc...); but, since I haven't experience in re-installing OS X, are there other folder or settings or something that I should backup before formatting the drive? what do you advise? every advice is accepted.
Thank you.

If your external hard disk is large enough to hold all your used space on your internal drive, I would clone the whole thing using something like SuperDuper, Disk Utility restore or asr at the command line.
It's a bonus if your external drive is Firewire, as your clone will be bootable.
Once you restore your Home directory and Library items and anything else you have that needs restoring, run your system for a while to flush out anything you missed that is still on the external drive.

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Hi David,
Did you have found any error message？
Check if all the files have been created on the hard drive.
Check the Volume shadow copy service in services window. To check follow these steps:
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i.
Search for the service
ii.
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iii.
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iv.
Select Properties
v.
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This is the most definitive answer I can find so am taking this as the answer.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsbackup/thread/889b01be-d333-4fc7-b005-e12b7b236ad7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/444e8ea2-6417-45dc-83d4-f5ae45bbaa02
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