Norton Ghost Equivlent for OS X? BootCamp won't let me unpartition.

So here's the story... I used Boot Camp to install Vista RC1, I wanted to see the 64-bit version working on my new Macbook Pro. While installing Vista it is suggested to remove an "EFI" 200mb partition. It worked. But now I want to rid of the partition and put my HD back to 1 full piece, I just use Parallels for my very few windows "needs". But Boot Camp assistant says it is unable to put them back in to one, and I must Backup and use Disc Utility to format my HD and then just reinstall OS X. But I wanna be lazy... is there any option like a Norton ghost, or equivalent, that I could image all my data on the OS X partition... then format my HD back in to one piece, then reinstall the image (i have a 2nd mac to be able to push the image from). Or what would be the easiest way to backup my data... so there's less needing to reinstall apps and configure personal setting/data?

thanks.