Can one migrate a hard drive from G5 to an intel machine?

My G5 tower (PPC) has a very new SATA drive as the boot drive.
I am getting a new Mac Pro tower.
Can I just take the HD out of the G5 and plop it into the Mac Pro, or are there formatting (or other) issues that I might encounter?
Or, should I clone the G5 to the new machine using Carbon Copy Cloner (or the like)?
The reason I ask is because I have not had great luck upgrading from one machine to another and keeping all of my settings and prefs.

Topher,
I just finished saying that the Migration Assistant does not work very well between PowerPC and Intel Macs. Please read my post over again.
Also I've experienced numerous issues, and so has Kappy, the author of the user tip I quoted when migrating between PowerPC and Intel Macs from plugins and applications that don't migrate over well to drivers that cause kernel panics to migrations that get stuck with hours of no progress at all. I've seen others who do too. Avoid using the Migration Assistant unless you are prepared for the possibility that it may have serious reprocussions like I and others have seen.

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