Lambchop wrote:

are there any compelling reasons to switch from SETI Classic to
BOINC?  I really do not want to use BOINC until I absolutely have to,
because as far as I've seen, it's very buggy and hard to configure,
and there are almost no good add-ons written for it (examples of what
I'm talking about... 3 add-ons I can't live without are SETI Spy,
SetiGate, and StarMap.  :D)

Also, when the switch-over occurs (something I have trouble seeing
happening in the foreseeable future for various reasons, including
the ones I listed above) will Berkeley stop accepting WU's from
SETI@Home users if they aren't using BOINC?  Or will they accept
SETI@Home WU's, but just discourage people from using the old
version, ala Microsoft Windows Update?

no seti@home classic will no longer work
boinc is not buggy, nor do i think it's harder to configure
the boinc system is so much better than the old seti@home classic system
currently as you know they are running both systems

this is common, keep the old system running while the new system is debugged 
enough to be stable, and then turn off the old system, so basicly if you 
like classic, keep using it till they turn it off, by then boinc shouldn't 
have too many problems, as far as i can see, most of the problems are server 
side