I've said this before - but this is just a reminder. I'll be breaking BOTL over time in order to get it into a far better place. Just be patient if you can't reach us! We'll be back
Yeah I've been doing that for years. Really helped when I had to copy over all those cab files for my Win98 installations. It's not the be all, end all solution but it helps most of the time.
You know, you can't tell if you don't like something until you try it. I personally couldn't try that PB/bacon stuff as the PB may put me into anaphylactic shock but the rest of what people have described sounds good enough.