What's the best way to upgrade FF 3.6.16 to FF 4 and begin using Sync across multiple platforms?

I love the look and features of FF 4. I recently bought a new laptop for the road and would like to have my FF environment on it --without recreating all of my bookmarks and passwords on it; so it looks like FF4 is the way to go.
Seems like there are two ways to do this...
1) Download FF4 to my desktop (curr. running 3.6.16) and hope that it keeps all my personal browsing info as past FF upgrades have, then add-on Sync, create an account, which I can then use on my new laptop w/o having to re-save a lot of bookmarks and organize a bunch of folders.
-or-
2) Start using Sync ( or Xmarks? in 3.6.16) on my desktop, create the account and then access that browsing environment on my laptop (running FF4) then upgrade my desktop to FF4.
Any recommendation as to which works better, or is less painful?
Anything to watch out for? or steps I've missed?

When you upgrade it will use your existing user data including bookmarks, passwords, cookies and browsing history.
I have been using Firefox Sync since it was in an early development stage about 2 years ago. I have gone through a few upgrades to Firefox since then with no problems during the upgrades. I recommend going to Firefox 4 first because Firefox Sync is built into it so there will be no need to install the add-on.
If required you can downgrade to Firefox 3.6.16

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