Yes that is very sound advice i personaly have been doing this for a few years now and has pulled me out of the brown stuff on quite a few occasions lol...
Also it is the best backup method thats is availble but probably the slowest as a fully working office system takes about 30mins to image , and a typical games system can take over 2 hours! .... But it is the best method in the long run .. restore times are very quick though if you need to do it and also you can browse the image you have and pull files over if needed... Not sure if the latest one supports that though =(
I always have an image of a fresh install at hand with all of my "must have" stuff on it set up... So to get that running again takes about 6min at the very most from start to finish..
Oks I will stop rambling on now lol...
