I think I found what I need to transfer to the new puter..
http://www.alohabob.com/products/index.asp
Check this out. What do you think?
I don't have first-hand experience with those.
Sorry.
Sounds good I would make sure you have backups on CD's and of course most of your stuff is in your online smugmug.com/photos etc.
Never used such programs myself.
I moved stuff over the old manual way of copying stuff over by hand.