Syncing laptop with Firefox and Thunderbird

I just got a new laptop, a Gateway 285-E Tablet convertible to be exact, and I love it. I really wanted to keep my bookmarks, mail, blogs and newsgroups in sync, so I found a pretty good solution using Firefox and Thunderbird's "-profilemanager" option and Windows XP file synchronization. This allows you to keep everything in sync: bookmarks, mail, history, cookies, blogs, etc. To make it work:

Share your "[DRIVE]\Documents and Settings\[ACCOUNT]" for in Windows (I won't got into details here, sorry). Now on your laptop, navigate to \\[COMPUTER]\[SHARE]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\[profile]" and enable "Make available offline"
Now run "thunderbird -profilemanager", create a new profile, then set the path to "\\[COMPUTER]\\[SHARE]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\[profile]".

Be sure to close Firefox and Thunderbird when you do a synchronization (Explorer -> Tools -> Synchronize...). I'd make a backup copy of your profile folder of course, just in case.