The day had come, it was time to move to Windows 7 along with all that reinstalling of applications and migrating your data to the new install.  Well, life got a lot easier for me for a few items at least!

Several years ago, I got tired of all the hassles of moving data around with Microsoft Outlook files (account settings and passwords and all that stuff, have over 30 email accounts setup) and moved to Mozilla Thunderbird as it only took a copying a couple files and everything but my passwords moved over.  Today, I was worried if I could remember all those passwords and dreaded the hassle of entering them.  Then I found a simple little utility MozBackup:

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

With this app, it will make a backup of Thunderbird files and settings as well as other Mozilla apps such as Firefox.  It simply packages up your data, settings and passwords into one data file (which you can password protect)  which you simply copy to the new machine and use MozBackup to restore those profiles on your new machine.