OK, I have been doing some more thinking about how I am going to set this up. I am working on the assumption that I can get all 5 working on my current kit.

I have 1 account currently so that will be Old1 then I will buy New 1,2,3 and 4.

My plan is to have Old 1 invite New 1 and New 2 and have New 1 invite New 3 and New 4. That way, I can boost all 4 new accounts with my mage on Old 1 and then pool all of the levels and make a 5th toon up to the same level as the others on Old 1 and another potential lvl 60 on New 1.

My multi 5 man group will probably be 4 druids (+ a "free one" on Old 1) so that I can have an uber stealth group or so that I can fill any role in a raid/group.

My new screen and keyboard arrive tomorrow, so I will get the trial accounts over the weekend and start playing! I am pretty sure that I can just buy the game straight from the Blizzard site when I want to upgrade the trial accounts. Is there any advantage in buying CDs over getting the expansions from Blizz?

What do you pros think? Would that work as a setup?

For the record, as a little challenge, my mage (who is 66/67 at the moment) was levelled purely by AoE grinding from lvl 22 when I got Blizzard and 3 points in imp bliz. So barring ranged mobs, I am sure that I can mop up I have about 20TB of raw FRAPS footage I am too lazy to condense.... maybe when I am done multiboxing!