Groupwise to Exchange

Geek help needed.
I have a project that I have only done before active directory and that is to migrate from Novell Grouwise to Exchange. I have read a bunch of articles and MS has a tool ;( yet with my experience nothing works correctly from MS. So I was wondering if perhaps those of you that have done this may share the experience with more that just an article saying boo hoo it was hard...how about the meat of it! Can you share the Project plan? How about the steps...what is involved..I am sure that alot of planning went into this move
..can you share it? Or would you like to be my mentor if I get stuck?
All help in this is appreciated..peace out
nvelardi@hotmail.com