OK, I think i've just about calmed my nerves enough to be mentally prepared to get an SSD.

Pretty much got my mind set on the SSD 530 so that's done, but I haven't the dimmest clue on how I'm going to move all my data.

Should I:

1) use this program that I found called Dell Datasafe Utility to make a recovery drive or simply put the SSD in Bay 2 temporarily (the SATA 2.0 one) and "backup" my C: drive to there, then swap the two and boot up? Would this work?

2) maybe create a system restore point or something? Would that work?

3) create a backup CD and somehow write the contents to the SSD?

4) throw up my hands in despair and do a clean install after backup up everything to myPassport?

Another question I have is, without doing a clean install, how on earth should I separate all the stuff between C: (SSD) and what's going to be my D: drive (my HDD)? Any programs, maybe Intel has a convenient wizard? I'm thinking of keeping User folders (so, documents, downloads, etc.) on HDD so that the incompressible data doesn't go anywhere near Sandforce. I'm making the assumption that the 240GB price on Newegg remains as it is so I can price match; worse case scenario, if the sale ends, I'll go with a 180GB 530 series assuming that the compression can make my 187GB worth of stuff fit onto that.

I'm so nervous I've deleted extraneous files (including BF4 beta and old Defy ROMs, almost 50GB worth of <ADMIN NOTE: Profanity removed as per TOU>), rar'ed up important folders and files, deleted unwanted programs, and organized everything. 

Any help is appreciated.