Recommendations for Installing SL

I may eventually end up doing an erase and install of SL. But, I want to do an easy install first to see what works and what does not. If the easy install seems good, then I might end up being satisfied with it. I should mention that I have two spare Clones of my current 10.5.8 setup.
The two easy install options I am considering are (1) upgrading and (2) erasing/installing plus using a Time Machine backup to grab my data and programs. I have no idea which of these two approaches is likely to have the greatest probability of a significant error or combination of errors. Any thoughts?
Also, the consensus used to be that an upgrade would, generally speaking, produce as good a result as an erase and install. Any thoughts in this regard on the current situation?
And, I have a question about using a Time Machine (TM) backup in the install process. Using TM, can I choose exactly what I want to transfer to my SL setup? For example, can I just transfer my data and my previously installed programs? TM didn't exist in my last incarnation as a Mac user.
Thanks for any help you can provide. I guess my disk will get here eventually today. It was on the truck at 7:20 this morning.
Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)
Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)

{quote:title=donv (The Ghost) wrote:} I am surprised that no one went with the erase/install/Time Machine option.{quote}
To be honest I didn't see it Their was an Options button where you select for printers, languages, X10, ect. and a page where you select which drive to install OS X on, but that's all we saw. It's probably still there tucked away somewhere, but we truly didn't need it
Just plan ahead before you do the upgrade. SuperDuper took just a few seconds to upgrade BUT the actual backup took almost an hour (which would normally take us around 20 minutes). The actual 10.6 install took us around 40 minutes. Everything went rather smoothly. I have two other Macs to upgrade (hopefully tomorrow when their discs come) and I hope they both go as smoothly

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