Save Time and Preserve Your Sanity with Windows Easy Transfer | Scottie's Tech Info : An easy way to transfer your settings, files, etc from an older version of windows to a newer one. Like when you want to upgrade to a computer running a better OS. Like Windows 7.
I'm going to try this and see how it works - and if I can just use it to make a quick and dirty backup to a file structure that I can then dump into a new OS install.