>if I back up a Maximizer installation to prepare for the reformatting
>of a computer, will all information and preferences relating to the
>users back up as well.
Some individual user preferences are saved to the user's area of the Windows registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER). These will not be included in a Maximizer backup. Just off the top of my head, some examples would be toolbar locations, window locations/fonts/colours, and so on.
However, recent versions of Maximizer have been moving toward storing more user preferences in the database, and those will be backed up.
>I.E. I have Max 9 set so that both users can see each others
>appointments at the same time.
This is not so much a question of user "preferences" as it is a question of user "permissions" for that specific address book. Such information is definitely stored in the database.