I suspect a lot of other people have been frustrated by this too: if you want to take an ArcGIS map document and use it on another computer it is (or at least, was) very difficult. The .mpd file only contains references to the actual data for the map, so you have to find where all of the data is stored and take that with you too – and whats more, the references are often stored as relative path names, so even moving it to a different folder on the same computer is a pain.
Anyway, ArcGIS 10 appears to have a new function called Map Packages. This allows you to package a .mpd file with all of the data that it uses into one (quite big, probably) .mpk file, which is then completely portable. Sounds great!
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