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An update.

Making progress and I'll post more later so that others can use this as lessons learned.

Thanks to all of you for your advice.

We successfully completed the first stage and migrated to a new nokia firewall (IP390) and Smart Center running R60. Here are a few things that I'll elaborate on further.

1) Keep the same Smart Center machine name.
2) Keep the same Smart Center IP address.
3) Cleaning up the Smart Center database makes for smaller files that export and import quicker.
4) Make sure that you have your Windows Wrappers and HFA's in the right form and on the right media.
5) Having alternate hardware makes things a lot easier.
6) Upgrading to NGX licenses works well if done properly.
7) Have the cpclean utility available.
8) Watch out for version compatibility between the Nokia IPSO and Checkpoint packages and the versions on the Smart Center. Some things are forgiving and others are not.

Thanks again to all of you.