Quote Originally Posted by lavaman094

Luckily I had backed up my home dir and I just reinstalled off the CD. I did not believe it but when I restored my home dir all my prefs were back. A manual apt-get upgrade is still required, but that's pretty impressive.
LOL! That's pretty good never heard that before, a couple of other things you may want to backup the files you make changes to in the /etc directory a new kernel and header packages if you compiled them and dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt to get your installed packages then if you ever restore again dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt then dselect update and finally apt-get dselect-upgrade will upgrade using the restored package list giving you the same packages as before the re-install then restore the /etc config files and you have your system back.