I have 2 laptops, one which will live in Europe where I go twice a year for about 2 1/2 months each trip, and one which will live in the US, where I stay for 3-5 months at a time.

They're both configured as close to identically as I can manage with WinXP Pro (unfortunately, had to go with Office 2007 on the new one), and I plan to update files via USB key thingy.

For storage, I'm planning to remove the battery and the adapter and store all of them in as cool and dry a place as I can find.

Does that sound like a good plan for storing them? Anything else that I should think about?