Question about apps and the home directory

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Hello All,

Recent switcher here, bought a Mac Pro a couple of months back and I am really enjoying it. I also bought it bare bones and am slowly making upgrades here and there. So far I have added 3 additional gigs of RAM and a 320GB hard drive in addition to the stock 250GB. My plan is to wait until Leopard comes out and then buy a 150GB Raptor and use it as my boot drive/apps, another 320GB Hard Drive and set up a striped RAID with my existing 320GB and use the stock 250GB drive for bootcamp and a scratch disk. I’ve done some research and a lot of people recommend a clean install instead of upgrading. My question is would I have to reinstall all my programs again (Adobe CS3 Suite, Games, Perian, etc.) or could I just back up my current boot drive to an external and drag the app files to the new drive? Also, I would want to move all my movies, music, and project files into the striped RAID set up. Would I just delete the movies, pictures, and music folders in my home/user folder and replace them will aliases of the same name pointing to the RAID drive? Any help or advice would be appreciated. I never used to bother with this sort of stuff but since I got a Mac Pro I thought I might as well take the time to pimp it slightly :)
 
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Your Mac's Specs
13" white 2.16Ghz, 2Gb ram, 120gb hd
I can't answer all your questions, but in regards to your first one about the install... When you do a fresh install just like windows you will have to re-install all your applications so i hope you kept a copy of them somewhere... Can someone else help out with the raid question?
 
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Thanks for the reply. I had a feeling that would be the case.

If anyone has any insight on the other stuff, I'm all ears.
 

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