Backing up your system can always be a pain in the butt. We've all known it, at some point in time, the hard way. I have to say, though, that the new backup stuff built into Leopard is pretty sweet.
Yesterday, at work, it appears that the plist file containing my Apple Mail preferences got horribly borked. When I got home (and had access to the firewire drive my laptop's backup data is stored on), fixing the problem was simple... I went and found the plist file, clicked on Time Machine, and restored my plist file from a week ago. Lo and behold, Apple Mail was fixed.
No muss, no fuss, .... it just worked.
An entry from Derek that expounds and praises something! No snarkiness!
We need an intervention.