It seems that Notes 8 falls a bit short on the functionality and simplicity of previous versions.
Chris had some
problems reinstalling Notes 8 after a disk crash.
This problem is definately something for IBM/Lotus to put some extra work into, since this kind of problem has never, to my knowledge, happened in any of the previous versions. It has always been very easy to move a client install from one machine to another, by just copying the data directory and notes.ini, and perhaps updating notes.ini if the directory structure was changed. It seems it's not quite that simple with Notes 8.