PowerBook in Target Disk Mode - cloned MacMini - created much confusion!

I'm hoping someone can tell me how to undo the mess I've made :-((
I've been using SuperDuper to clone the hard drive of my MacMini to my 12inch Powerbook so that the Powerbook is an exact copy of everything on my MacMini - BIG MISTAKE (I now realise). I wanted to check some details of the PB's bluetooth capability today and discovered that everything shown in 'About this Mac' actually refers to the MacMini and not to the PB.
Can anyone please tell me how I can get back my PB information?
I should add that I do have a separate hard drive in a firewire enclosure that I also use to backup my MacMini hard drive - I just thought I would be very 'belt and braces' by having a clone on my PB, but instead I seem to have created a big mess for my PB.
Cheers
Tricia

> I must admit to not understanding what 'cloning to a disk image is.
That basically means backing up to a 'virtual' software-based disk, rather than an actual physical disk.
Your only real option with the PowerBook is to erase and install. There is no need to download the 10.4.7 combo update separately as you can do that from the PowerBook once it has been installed with Tiger.
As for Entourage and the MS Office applications. You need to install the applications on to your PB first. Afterwards, with regard to Entourage emails (and I am not the best person to answer this as I do not use Entourage), I think there is an import function/wizard that allows you to locate the 'old' data and import it into the new installation. The remaining PowerPoint, Excel and Word data files can simply be copied over.
For both the data transfer tasks you may want to have your Mac mini connected via (ironically) FireWire Target Disk Mode so that the PB can access the mini's drive.
15" 1.25GHz/12" 1GHz PBs, 2xPPC Mac minis, 12" iBook G4,   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Cube, 2xTAMs, iPods 2G/4G, iPs, AEBS, AX

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