What is the correct way to install Leopard?

It seems like everytime I upgrade to a new OS, I end up screwing something up. I am borderline thinking about taking my laptop up to the apple store and having them install Leopard for me. Last week in another thread someone posted something saying I should backup my home directory? and save it to my external drive then install leopard and then drag that home directory back over. This was said to be a work around instead of using Archive and Install. I guess I could do that but are there other suggestions out there?
I just don't want to happen what happened when I installed Leopard on my desktop. I had about 4 libraries of stuff and another folder that was marked Previous system and that had a bunch of files and then I had the home directory for the old system! The bottom line I had a lot of stuff that I ended up deleting which freed up my hard drive space significantly.
I would like to make the install on my Macbook Pro clean, simple and painless as possible!
Thanks!
Oh yea if I decide to back up the home directory. Do I just drag the little house icon over to my external drive? If so, once Leopard is installed, do I drag it back to the same location I took it from?

If you don't mind reinstalling all your applications, backup your home folder to an external, boot off your Leopard Disk and go to Disk Utility. Erase your hard drive and format HFS+. Than do an Erase & Install. After that is complete, restart. Once you go through the setup procedures, perform all the software updates until they are all installed. Now move your Home Directory back. Finally, start reinstalling your applications. This will give you a brand new Leopard system that should work fine.
First however, make a bootable clone of your HD to an external drive for backup. You need to erase the drive and format to HFS+ with a GUID partition table. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to make the clone.
To back up the home folder, yes, drag the little house icon to an external, but with the bootable clone, this isn't really neccesary.
This isn't the easiest way to install Leopard, but it gives you the best chance of having no issues.

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Or should I wait for the next version of Leopard (I am a little concerned about all the reports of bugs etc.)??
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I would say that if you are hesitant that you should wait for at least rev 1 to come out or once you have found out that all the programs that you need to run are compatible with Leopard. With any major upgrade, you are bound to experience some minor or major issues.
If you decide to install, whatever method you use make sure you back up first!
The best back up mechanism is for you to create a clone of your original drive - this way, if something goes wrong you can revert back to your back up.
See this about cloning:
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http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2005/06/superduper/
(I'm sure you could find more info you search these forums as well)
After you have made the proper back up, if you want to start clean, I would say that the best way is to erase and install. Know that you will have to reinstall all the applications and move all the files to their correct locations - photos, music, documents, etc.
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