Upgrade from 7.2 to 9

["Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com>]

Well I did it and it seemed to work out fine.  Actually I did have a
problem, shouldn't eat buttered popcorn while handling CD's but I got the
dog to lick the butter off and wiped it on my jeans and it worked fine after
that.

Questions:

1 - I got an error saying the CD couldn't be read and the machine locked up
- so I had to hit the reboot button, clean off the CD and started all over
(Butter on the CD).  Would it have been possible to pick up from where it
left off?  I ended up doing a custom upgrade and I hand picked all the
programs I wanted but didn't know if they had already been installed before
it crashed or if I got the best thing going.  What would have been the
appropriate way to do things.  Is there a list somewhere of the "Standard"
set of programs installed?

2 - I did an upgrade as I didn't want to loose all the
configurations/programs I had already loaded.  Is there a way to see what
may be on the machine that I'm not using any more (i.e. was replaced by a
different program under 9 that wasn't there under 7.2)?

3 - I also did a fresh install on my Dell Latitude notebook.  I didn't have
it in the docking station at the time.  Has the docked/undocked
configuration problem been solved or is that still more of a manual fix?

Thanks,

Brad