Passwords & Security -- Protecting my Mac from the genius bar

Hi there. I am turning in my mac to the Genius Bar for some general maintenance and I want to make my private content and passwords as secure as possible. Could someone help me with any of the following?
1. My login is password protected, but they'll need the password. That will also then give them access to my "keychain". Is there any other way to further secure my keychain?
2. My Firefox is set to automatically log-in to certain websites (e.g. email, social networking sites), but I can't figure out how to disable that. Thoughts?
3. Any other tips on securing my private data and passwords before handing over my mac? I'm going to back-up and move all my important docs off the computer and onto an external drive before submitting the mac.
Thanks!!

The only thing you can do to protect your data against a knowledgeable person in possession of your machine is to encrypt it. Although you can do that with FileVault, I don't recommend that (it causes more problems than it solves IMHO). Use something else to encrypt your sensitive data (keychain is secure, as would be encrypted disk images made with Disk Utility).
Also, once you've got sensitive stuff encrypted, create a second admin account and give the Apple techs access to that. They could still reset the password on your original admin account, or could access your stuff using the Terminal and the "sudo" command, but neither will give them access to your keychain.

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