The complete steps to bring to factory settings

Hi...
This is my first Mac experience, thus please bear with me.
My MacBook Pro 15" 1.83 GHz had been running fine. Since the first time I started it up, I had never undergone a single hang. Not even a single hang during low or high load, eventhough at times CoreDuoTemp reported temp as high as 70-80 degrees Celcius! I was using stock MBP 15" 1.83 GHz with 2 GB of Crucial memory modules.
However, at late Dec 2006, I found out that my MBP fans are not working at all. smcFanControl reported my fans ran at 0 rpm. Ah, that was probably the reason I had 70-80 degrees Celcius on high load. Thus, after scheduling for a repair, I got my logic board replaced. I got the Mac OS X 10.4.6 discs too. smcFanControl reported 1000 rpm fan speed for both fans since then. All were great once more. Not even a single hang still!
One day in early March 2007, I got my first hang The display are still on, I was running Eclipse 3.2.1 on top of Java SE 6 DP1. If I recalled correctly, I was charging my MBP. I could not move the cursor using USB mouse or the trackpad and keyboard strokes didn't have any effects. I forced shutdown my Mac and tried to start it up and after booting, I experienced 5 times consecutive lock ups.
I thought, could it be because my Mac was in hot condition? I decided to put it in rest, let it finished charging. The day after, I tried to boot my Mac and everything was OK.
A weak ago, I got another hangs. I was charging my Mac. I was not running Eclipse. I was simply browsing. The machine was hot. I put it in rest, and started it up a few hours later and everything is OK.
A few days ago, I got another round of hangs. I was charging too. I was coding with TextMate.
Now with 10.4.9 is officially out, I thought I will try to reinstall everything. I had never reinstalled Mac OS X before. Here are the questions:
1. What do I need to reset? PRAM? SMC? Just to make sure that I got my MBP to near as factory condition as can be. And in what order?
2. After I do any hardware resets, should I just install Mac OS X from my 10.4.6 disc and reactivate my Mac OS X? (hmm... is there any activation things at all?)
I plan to update to 10.4.9 right away using the combo updater. I really hope I will not experience more hangs.
Thanks for your attention.
John
MacBook Pro 15" 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

We want to move day-to-day usage ove rthe OS X side...to migrate all user preferences, mail, addresses, bookmarks, data files, etc.I am not sure exactly what is meant by this, nor of what you want to do to "move day to day usage" etc.
If you mean you want to use OS X regularly instead of OS 9, you need to go to Control Panels in OS 9 and select Starup Disk. Then select OS X on MacHD and restart computer. You will now be in OS X.
...to migrate all user preferences, mail, addresses, bookmarks, data files, etc.Since Mail, AddressBook are different applications in OS X, you will have to start over. You can import from other OS X computers if you want to, or network with the other computers in your household.
I feel like I am missing the point, somehow, so please redirect me with further questions, if you don't mind.
Good luck.
cornelius
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