Backing up PowerBook; need quick help

Okay, here's the setup.

My mother owns a PowerBook. She will be sending it to Apple for repairs (the pins on the charger are damaged and the case is a tad warped, so its hard to charge it). She has a lot of important data, all in the form of documents and TIFF images. She's worried that something will go wrong and all her data lost or something when it goes to Apple.

The PowerBook has a 40 GB hard drive. We have an extra PC around here with an almost-empty 80 GB drive.

I would like to back everything up. How can this be done? I've heard of a program called Carbon Copy Cloner; would that work?

What can I use to back the Mac up to the PC? For free?

I need an answer quickly. If it can't be done easily, CompUSA will back up the data for a fee.

Thanks!

We've kinda got stuff scattered all over the drive

Would it be possible to save that clone of the system onto the PC to transfer back later?

Hmm, I'm noticing the price tag (CompUSA backs it up too for a small fee). Can the trial version do the same things?

Alrighty, I'll download it now and see if its doable with the PC. Thanks.

Anyone else have any other apps in case it doesn't work?

I realize that, and I actually did back it all up a few months ago onto an iPod. It's just too big to back up to the iPod now. When the drive only had like 15 gigs used I backed up all her stuff to a 20 GB iPod.

Well I'm going to try backing up her files individually onto the iPod and using the .Mac Backup app for all the settings and iPhoto library and all.


Completely forgot about Backup. I figure that might work.