I'm ready to take SeaMonkey out for a spin. I figure I'll just run it parallel with 1.7.11, so no harm if it crashes and burns. I'll try to do as much browsing and news through SeaMonkey while keeping primary e-mail in the Suite.
I believe that the Mac version of Seamonkey will allow you to specify which hard Drive/folder you want it to store the profile in. It has been a long time since I launched the profile manager. With the Mozilla suite when you launched the profile manager to create a new profile ...