The good news is that the system seems much more stable now. So when it can't ready from F:, it doesn't explode, it just says "hey, we can't read this" and stays up. I figure that copying files through the iTunes library consolidation option isn't helping matters, and a more direct copy would probably have more success. But to accomplish that I'll have to manually (or at least via a find and replace) update all of the pointers in iTunes' XML-based library file. Or I could just wipe the library and reimport all the music, but then I lose playlists and ratings, and sorting music and syncing it to iPods becomes a real hassle again. This would all be way easier if I wasn't dealing with 160GB of content.

Beyond that, the next biggest headache will be reinstalling everything I use for audio editing and song writing. FL Studio isn't a huge problem, but the gigs and gigs of VST plugins certainly will be. I'll probably put a rush on this, as there's been talk of doing some writing/recording over the Christmas break.

Lastly, there's e-mail. But that's just reinstalling Thunderbird and copying the settings and e-mail folders over from the old install, I think. Shouldn't be tough, I just haven't done it in awhile.

Reinstalling most of the games that I actually play will be easy. I've already reinstalled Steam, I just need to tell it to download everything again. Hmm... maybe I could just move some of the files out of the old install to save some time there.