[Ham-Mac] Yaesu 857 and Mac, what do I need?

[Euphoria]

Hello gurus!

Sorry for the bad spelling, folks. I might try this in Norwegian,  
but... ;-) (Hey! Any other norwegian hams that operate with Macs out  
there?)

I have just bought a Yaesu FT-857 and I really wont to scrap the  
winbox i use with my old Kenwood TS440. I have 3 Macs in my house and  
why use other systems? ;-) I have OSX 10.4-6 on all macs, and their  
modern G4's.

So here's my questions:

1. What do I need to connect my radio to the Mac?
2. Just bought a CT-62 cable. It's in the mail now. What Serial to  
USB-interfaces do you recomend?
3. What software do you use for operating the radio on the Mac? (Is  
MacLoggerDX as great as it looks?)
4. Is there anything else I should know about?  
(Connectionspeeds, ...anything!)
5. In my transfere to Mac, I would like to convert my logg-database  
from Ham radio deluxe to a Mac-format. I'm planning on buying  
MacLoggerDX, and would like to convert what I have in the HRD-log to  
that program. Any suggestions on how to do that?

I hope you can answer and help me out here. I *REALLY* wont the  
winbox out of my chack!

Best 73's!! LA6UOA / Trygve:-)