I've reinstalled some more stuff now, including the biggest item of all,
The Sims -- including all of my downloads, creations, saved families and neighborhoods, and the downloaded accessory programs (for editing stuff outside the game)! It took a while, but not as long as I'd feared.
I'm also getting used to Thunderbird (
Mozilla's email program). It's taking me a while to find where they hid some of the setings, but once I've found them all, it may turn out to be an improvement over Outlook Express. :-)
Other things I've installed include:
Firefox (as mentioned earlier),
Second Life (screen name "Aaron Kukulcan"),
There (screen name "Aaron_of_Mpls") and its accessory programs,
IMVU (screen name "
AaronOfMpls"),
SimCity 3000, and SimCity 2000. And things I plan to install later are:
SimCity 4,
Civilization III, and maybe Civilization II.
More updates (and other stuff) later...