I am a computer powder puff, and would appreciate your pointing me in a useful direction.

My Mac PowerBook G4 Entourage, My Drama

I am a computer powder puff, and would appreciate your pointing me in a useful direction.

My Mac PowerBook G4 <1yr old wouldn’t boot. My local Mac store was able to back it up fully on my LaCie before sending it to Texas for a major repair , and I was told that even if I needed a new hard drive, I could restart my computer from my LaCie.

MONTHS later, I got my PowerBook back, with new hard drive as well as some super important snake-y thing.

BUT it wasn’t good to go from the back-up drive–I was told I had to start it from its predecessor computer (which I luckily still had access to).

For several months now I have been using my repair PowerBook, but I have never been able to figure out how to get my Entourage files off the LaCie drive. I can’t find any literature on how to import that way, and the Mac store guys scared me by saying importing from my backup might cause the backup info to take over and I would lose what’s on the computer now.

My drama seems to share some scenes with yours. Any ideas for someone who’s got a couple years of her life on a hard drive she’s afraid to look into?

Sorry if my lack of ability makes it impossible for me to describe the situation properly.