Flash Mac Help

I don't know much about Mac's, but I'm looking to get one and not spend too much. I found a local apple store that is selling a used G3/300 (tower) and has OSX, 80gig HD, Rage 128 Graphics Card, 576 MB Ram, 512K L2 Cache for $799. I'm an intermediate level Graphic Designer, and don't need anything really fancy or super fast for home. I just need something that works well...

her job would really help here. ...

well slo, i don't know what to tell ya... Flash MX works fine for me and the handful of people that seem to have problems are just bitchin' becuase of reasons unknown... ...

and I plan on using Sound Studio or N2MP3 to do the actual editing, etc. I want to imbed this in flash hence I need .wav or mp3 files for web delivery. The phone calls are interviews. Any help or specific suggestions appreciated. ...

Go and request coldfusion for the mac! Request flash communication server while you're there. ...

My second question is, is can anyone point me to some websites that will help me learn to format my mac HD and reinstall OSX and OS9 on my system properly? ...

There is a bit of Graphics, Web Design and Flash Animation that goes on... ...

Hey JetosX thanx for all your help. I am aware of the five (or more, if you have more than one user) fonts folders and I've tried every single one of them. But none seem to support subfolders. I find that a bit of a flaw in OS X, i hope 10.2 fixes that. As i am not a full time designer but do alot of design stuff but mostly flash if OS X fixes this it would at least justify...

period of time. Actual, memory is the best thing to help Photoshop, anything to keep it from having to write that much to the scratch disk improves performance. ...

Incidently, does anyone know if its possible to open files i saved in the Flash MX Trial with my old version of Flash 5? ...