Need timing advice for switching to dathorn

[cathode]

Hey,
I want my switch-over to be as smooth as possible. I want to carefully consider the timing. I wonder of a dathorn representative could help me here...

1) Since I'll be getting personalized nameservers, I assume the domain name switch for my hosted sites will be painless, once the changes propogate... does this sound right?
2) I want to minimize the chances of any outage today (Friday) untill after 6pm EST
3) this leads me to the question: whan should I actually sign up and initiate all of the changes, should it be now (Friday morning?)
4) I have cpanel-generated backups of all of the important domains and will be getting help moving things from dathorn. This should hopefully make things ready when the switchover happens.

[Jonathan]

1. I think so; check here, for something simular asked:

http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=1052

2. & 3. ~ not sure.. I'm not good with math
4. I believe it is 50¢ per site, if the other host has cPanel,
to move everything over; not 100% sure.

[AndrewT]

4) Backups generated from within cPanel cannot easily be restored entirely.