Johan Hartzenberg writes:
> I am guessing the answer is YMMV depending on the differences in versions
> of, for example Firefox, Gnome, Thunderbird, etc, and based on how well
> these cope with settings that was changed by another potentially newer
> version of itself.

The answers to your questions are basically all "no."  The new
installer wants a primary partition or a whole disk.

However, there are helpful blogs from folks who've made the
transition.  Poor Ed seems to have a broken 'shift' key, but he gives
great details here:

  http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live

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