I do love uTorrent as well, but I'd rather keep just one machine running, so I'm going to have to rig up Transmission to do the RSS duty. Because of that, I decided to go the 10.5 route. Unfortunately, I had to reinstall OS X to make Spotlight work again. Try as I might, it didn't want to resume working after disabling it. Fortunately, Apple seem to have refined their software update procedure to only require two passes to fully update the system.

NTFS has been wiped from the Drobo and I'm now transferring the contents (1.5 TB) back over from Windows via gigabit ethernet. I'm using SmartSync Pro to do the transfer over SMB. The estimated transfer time is estimated at half the speed it took to backup to a WD Mybook a couple days ago. It's early though, so it will be a while before I can call this a success.