Tried out Multiply today.
MSN Groups has finally made it official, and created a page for helping Groups ease over to Multiply. So, I went over there to poke around, and ended up joining Multiply (which gave me a personal page) and creating a sort of personal group.
There seems to be a way to change backgrounds and colors - kind of like LJ, in a way. I can put pictures into the Welcome section, and have separate albums for the various pictures. Found out, however, that though there will be photo albums transferred, the actual photos won't be. They'll have to be uploaded from my computer - Multiply doesn't have an uploader function that will work with MSN. In the case of Tracy Island IR, and its background site, I'll have to download to my computer and upload to either the site itself, or to photobucket. Some of our graphics (such as the logo) are at photobucket already, but a lot aren't. And to add them to the pages, you have to use HTML. Not a problem for me, but for my assistant managers? Might be.
From the comments at the Multiply Migration help site, the messageboards are a mess when they import over. I'm half tempted to import it (as in IR Central) all anyway and see how much of a mess it is, then decide whether or not to keep it.
I'm still of the opinion that starting from scratch at a new site of my own will be better. But I promised I'd wait to see what Live Groups has to offer.
At least I'm not at AOL...