Seriously considering switching Entourage to Mail. Any switcher advice?

After 7 years of being a power Entourage user (it's the center of my business), I'm considering, for the first time, switching to the Mail/AddressBook/iCal combo. The main reason is the need to be accurately synced between all three of my Mac computers. I just switched all 9 of my email accounts from POP to IMAP, and I'm seeing what a complex thing it is with Entourage. For the first time, a .mac account makes a whole lot of syncin' sense.
I know this is an odd time for considering a move, since Leopard is about to come out (probably with improvements) and the next version of Entourage is scheduled for January. But given that, I'd love to hear from other Entourage-to-Mail switchers, especially those that use sync to keep multiple Macs up-to-date, AND anyone that customizes things with AppleScripts. I have had a dozen customized AppleScripts created for my workflow, and I'm wondering if Mail can be scripted to do similar things. I don't mind hiring an AppleScripter to redo all the scripts, I'm more concerned if Mail can actually do similar things.
Any words of advice from other Entourage-to-Mail switchers? Also: any AppleScripters out there for hire?

The contacts process is almost as easy as Mail.
Go to the Applications folder and open the Applescripts folder.
Open the Example Scripts folder.
Open the Address Book Scripts folder.
Choose Import Addresses.scpt
Double click on the script file and click on Run.
Choose Entourage from the menu and import from the Application.
It will launch Entourage and import your contacts.
If Entourage exports label information then Address Book is capable of using that information.
I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say "Categories associated with each contact."
Address Book has an Add Field menu choice under the Card menu to customize the categories of information and Edit Template lets you create whatever fields you are likely to need.
If you need to create directories or groups of addresses the file menu has the options.
You can also create Smart Groups.
There is excellent help in the Help menu, as well, to explain these options.
You may need to experiment a little, in order to create the appropriate template for the contact data to be imported into.
There is also information in Help under Importing contacts into Address Book with other ideas around importing and field labels.
You can test by creating new user accounts in system preferences and importing into the Address Book in another user.
This lets you experiment with the import.
It will help you to fine tune a Template and what method to use for the import.
This process is definitely faster than manually entering that many entries.

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