>can i literally copy the entire osx partition onto a hd (firewire), reformat
>the drive and then copy back? or am i heading for a world of pain...

I just used Apple Software Restore in OS 9 to copy my OS X on a 2 GB 
drive to a faster 4 GB drive. I have not seen any problems, except I 
had to delete the L2 startup item for my G3 upgrade card and 
re-configure L2 cache in OS X.
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