Leopard

I have XP installed on my mac but every time i try to install the boot camp drivers using the Leopard installation disc it gives me an error saying "The package requires a new version of windows installer. ...

That seems silly that you get iLife when you buy a new computer but if you restore it you've lost it. This might sound stupid, but what is contained in iLife anyway? I know iPhoto, but what else? To be honest I probably don't use those applications that much. Is there away to back up those programs like on an external HD before I wipe her and then add them back on?...

Also keep in mind that a Tiger or Leopard retail disk does *not* contain iLife, iLife's a separate package in retail. You got iLife with your computer, i.e. it was on the restore disk(s). I still don't quite understand whether Apple has a replacement program for those disks. How about asking Apple support about it? A call certainly won't hurt too much.

I will check out Tiger disk prices on ebay, and compare those with the new Leopard price. ...

Any PowerBook G4 from about late 2002 with an 867 MHz and greater processor can run Leopard according to Apple. ...

up disk anymore. I thought maybe I should purchase the upgrade to Leopard for after I wipe it, but I'm not sure how to even do that. ...

Sounds like a clean install would *definitely* help this computer. Simply clean install Leopard on the computer (i.e. get rid of Tiger's leftovers, all apps, all data etc.), install Office (2008 would run better, but 2004 is fine) and Adobe CS3. Forget about using DiskWarrior or any other tools for now. A clean install reformats the harddrive, anyway.Then update the system and...

More specifically: That iMac G5, if equipped with 1 GB RAM or more, makes a fine home user machine with Leopard, iLife '08, iWork '08 and some more software. Currently, there's almost *no* intel-only software. This will change with Mac OS X 10.6, of course, when PPC-Macs are deprecated. However: 10.5 will still be supported for some time, then.

When configuring the System Preferences Sharing Preference Pane I changed the Computer name to something manageable and then tried to change the Public folder name and create a Public Folder with that name. Instead of now being named "LLS-iMac G5's Public Folder", it is now merely called "Public Folder". Can the public folder be renamed to align with the computer name when...

and Leopard likes to have a lot of memory to work at its best. ALL memory up to your supported maximum can be used. ...