[Evolution] migration to another computer

[Michael Klinosky <mpk2 enter net>]

Hello.
I upgraded (Fedora 7 => 8), and I'm having a problem restoring the email.

Before the upgrade, I checked out how to migrate Evolution's emails (on 
go-evolution.org/FAQ). In the section:
"How can I transfer all my Evolution data between computers/to a new 
partition/to a new computer?", there is a part that I don't understand:

"On the new computer, make sure you are not running gconf (by ps ax | 
grep gconf for example; you normally have to leave gnome for that and 
then run gconftool-2 --shutdown). Then import those settings by running 
gconftool-2 --load some-file.xml and log in to gnome again."

How do i 'leave gnome'?

I *thought* that I accomplished this procedure - however, when I started 
up Evolution, none of the email was there.