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Tool that was very useful in cleaning up my Sharepoint site in preparation for upgrade to 2010.
Project Description Find faulty FeatureDefinitions and cleanly uninstall them. Find Feature remainders in Sites, SiteCollections, WebApps and in the Farm, from e.g. forcefully uninstalled Features from farm without [...]

Excerpt from another very useful post on setting up Profile Syncs in Sharepoint 2010
This is how I setup user profile sync for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta on my machine. You should not take this as an official guide. But the steps may help if you have been drive crazy.
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An excerpt from the MS Sharepoint Team Blog on User Profile Synchronization
Before we get into the deep details, I want to share a high-level checklist to setup User Profile syncing on Windows Server 2008.  Once the WCF hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 is available, this guidance will work on R2.  This checklist is [...]

If you have been following the newsgroups, you will see that there are a lot of people having problems with setting up user profile synchronization in the Sharepoint 2010 Beta 2 release.
Since the beta release I have done two Sharepoint 2010 installs on Windows Server 2008, and one on Windows Server 2010 R2. [...]