Recomended PowerBook protection products?

Just ordered my first Mac last week: a 15" PowerBook. I plan on treating this like my baby and want to give it all the protection it needs to last and stay healthy & clean. I'd love to get any advice, experience, and recommendations you can share with me in that regard.
Here are some of the specific types of protection I've been looking at, but I'd value any other suggestions, too:
Cable lock: From what I've read, it is best to go with a combo lock because the key locks are easy to pick. But a lot of the best rated combo locks I've found are so thick, they look like they'd interfere with the nearby power jack on the PowerBook. In fact, the people at PC Guardian admitted as much to me about their product. Does anyone have a PowerBook with a combo lock that fits that they would recommend?
Keyboard protection: I am especially interested in this type of product as I will be doing a lot of work in a restaurant environment (and probably the occasional coffee house) and I deeply fear having something spill on that beuatiful backlit keyboard. The only product I've found is the iSkin (below), but users at the Apple store have scared me away from it with some of their reviews (especially reports that it marks the screen... granted I could just remove it when closing). Can anyone give me advice on this?
http://www.iskin.com/protouch_PB1.html
Screen protection: I use screen protectors religiously on my Treo and my digital camera and they work great. So I'm thinking I can get the same benefits from a similar protector for my PB. Of course, the Treo & camera do not have very high resolution screens, so I'm inclined to wonder if such a film would be more noticable on the high-res PB screen? Is this recommended by any users? Any advice on this or similar products?
http://www.macheaven.co.uk/?page=prodde … ;prod=1086
Screen/keyboard/wrist-rest protection: I have read a lot about the wrist rest getting dirty and fingerprints transferring to the screen from the keyboard when the PB is closed. These must be an issue to some degree, as I've found more than one product addressing this (examples below). Is this hightly recomended? Any advice on this or similar products?
http://www.welovemacs.com/icpb215mssl.html
http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=5478-MDPP
Port protection: This seems like a good idea in general, especially in the aforementioned restaurant environment. Any experience or comments you have on this product?
http://www.radtech.us/Products/Portectorz.aspx#
Cooling products: Much is made about keeping laptops of both the PC & Mac variety cool. I've had PC laptops issued to me by employers before and never had a cooling problem; but I've been given the impression that a Mac PB runs hotter (is that even true?). I will be using the PB daily, often for hours at a time. Any recomendations or thoughts about cooling products like these?
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/maclaunch1- … reeze.html
http://www.targus.com/us/product_details.asp?sku=PA248U
A big thanks to all who respond.
(if you noticed it... plz forgive X-post)

I have a Kensington combo lock which works just fine although on my 15' PB the lock slot is on the right hand side at the front, I dont know if it is different on the newer models. I also fitted a radtech(???) protector sheet that goes between the keyboard and the screen when the lid is shut, this seems to stop screen marking, also cleaning the case/screen often with IKlear or similar seems to build up a protection layer and stop marking, and a company called matias do nice hard briefcase style cases which esp in my case seem to put up with a lot of abuse!!
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