[dnanian]

Hi, Neal: thanks for the compliments.

I don't know whether the migration assistant will allow you to use a straight backup as the source for migration assistant. But, if you've got a full backup and it doesn't work, you can always copy it back -- or do a "manual migration". So, you can try it... just make sure you do "Backup - all files" and you TEST the backup before you erase the original.

Regarding the crash, that's not something we hear very often. If you've got a crash log, please send it into support and I'll take a look at it.

Thanks.