On the latter part of your question, I must admit, I have enjoyed ClassicWB far more than I did 3.9. It runs nice and smooth, the included apps are better, and it covers a ton of the patches and tweaks you'd have to do by hand.
I also had bad luck with the 3.9 boing bags, resulting in a non-booting system a few times, but its possible I was just screwing things up.
