Just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks for all the info posted here. I've been reading up on it for a few days and just started the pretty common Pally + 4 Shaman team. I'm starting out running all off of one machine: E6750 Core 2 Duo, 4 GB ram, GeForce 8600 GTS. I'm using HotkeyNet to set up and change window layout in addition to cloning keystoke. I've also got an X-keys pro on the way and 8 GB ram (max for vista home premium =/ ).

My setup seems to be doing pretty much everything I need so far apart from running out of keyboard buttons to macro. I've been really impressed with all that HotkeyNet can do: rearrange winodws on the fly, sending keystrokes and mouseclicks to specifc windows, etc. From the sound of it though, I'm thinking I ought to try out Keyclone once I get the memory added to my machine(might as well wait since my system configuration will change). It appears to have some features that are hard to come by otherwise and is a little safer from the 1 button, 1 action sort of rule.

I do have a couple questions:

I haven't been able to find out all that much about keyclone; does is also clone mouse movements/clicks? I've got HKN to clone mouse clicks, but it's a little slow, taking around 1 sec to click all 5 screens. Still, its pretty useful for opening and accepting 5 quest dialogs. If there was a good solution to this it seems that you could do just about everything with one or two beefy computers as you could by actually running 5 machines.

Also, I was thinking it would make sense to get another video card to run a second monitor. I'm using 2 monitors from the 1 card now, but I'll probably need to upgrade a lot of things by the time I'm multiboxing more BC, lich king content. From a post I read, however, it seemed as though people were having problems using more than one video card (or was this a winXP only issue?).

It's a bit of a longwinded post, but after 4 years, I'm pretty excited to have some more life breathed into WoW. Anyways, thanks for all the guides, tips and advice here. Seems like a really good community.