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First let me say welcome and I hope you find the right Boxster for you that will leave you worry free. In Nov 2010 I bought a 2000 'S' with ~52k miles on it. It had been a completely trouble free car for the previous owner. I replaced 80% of what you are thinking of doing and only because I wanted to and it was fun (and a many others you didn't mention). I could send you the LONG list of things I did and the ONLY part out of all of it that actually was in the very early stages of failure was the motor mount and that still had another 20k miles on it.
Some of these cars are as good as any Toyota some are far from it. You could find one that was well maintained and had good repair history and not worry about repairing all this stuff. I would recommend you buy one of the cars sold by a forum member who has already done most of this work. That will save you the time and money.
It sounds also like you are thinking of spending upward of $20 to $22k, you can pick up some fine 987 Base models for that!
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