I'm keeping my Powerbook.  I thought that a nice gentleman in California had bought it, but he didn't come up with the money.  That's good news for me–I was missing it already.  Since I already had it backed up, I decided to wipe it and start from scratch and not to install Classic.  At first, I wanted MacOS 9 dual boot capability, but I came to the (now obvious) conclusion that I don't use Classic.  My final holdout was Microsoft Office, specifically Office 98 since it runs better in Classic that Office X runs in X.

I had become used to several tweaks I had made in my install of Jaguar, specifically using Cocktail to change transparency on the dock and some unix stuff like fink and the developer tools.  I did the reintall of Jaguar last night, using the retail disks.  First thing after the reboot, it snagged the updates, so I ran through those installers.  Whew, finally done.  What was the first app I reinstalled?  NetNewsWire, of course!  Best of all, my weblog never had to suffer.