I have been using OS X from the moment it was in beta and have acquired quite a bit of experience dealing with the many intricacies of this multifaceted operating system. Recently, I had to do a complete reinstall after a hard drive failure. I grabbed this opportunity (always look at the bright side...) to set up a quick "from OS X to custom geek toy" list. A step-by-step walkthrough is given at:
http://www.tijsseling.com/professional/xtipstop.html
Thought this might be useful to y'all.
Adriaan
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20010723220532406