Gonna Take my G5 in for service (Applecare) What to expect?

Hey guys, years ago i bought my beloved dual G5. This thing has served me INCREDIBLY well and has taken some serious abuse, not physically, but constant rendering 24/7, heavy audio recording, more rendering+assigning net-rendering, basically one huge workhorse.
WEll this past year things kind of quit working. Most annoyingly, video card just quit working with openGL, ie anything that requires openGL just shows up black veiwports. next we have the gigabit ethernet, that just REFUSES to fully connect. I installed a PCI network card, and i hate being back on 100mb lan. Icing on the cake was dvd burner hardly works. I think even moreso something is up with the IDE channel, because i put another compatible burner in and get nothing but i/o errors.
And lets not forget all the problems that randomly occur when using firewire/usb devices. Random complete lockups (in PC world id say bad power supply) FW devices appearing/disappearing
So i figured my applecare ran out, but i checked it and what do ya know? It's sitll in effect itl april 22nd. YAY!
What i mean by what to expect is, I've heard the stories of people taking in their mac's and coming back with more modern machines because what they brought in just hasnt been around in forever. So what am i to expect? Should i just to be safe remove my extra hard drives/ram? I know everything is intel now, allot of recording and 3D plugins i run are still PowerPC, though more and more everyday are UB. So basically, are they going to fix up my machine (totally fine with me) or is there a chance i'd come out of this with some intel machine?
I know whatever apple does i'll be happy and back to work in the end. The problems arent from misuse, the machine sits in a clean environment, i watch the temps in the summer, and i take great care of it. i say it's more from overuse. They were incredibly helpful when i brought them an ancient G3 wallstreet a few years ago. Told me they didnt support it, but sitll told me what was wrong, where to get the new parts, all for free at the geek bar.
Any thoguhts? I know i should call em, but its easter. Im just excited i dont have to pay out the arse to get my machine back to where it used to be.

Oh theyll just charge me to backup? I'm not too worried, i have most of my important stuff on my second hdd, anything else i can throw all over my network. And ill remove anything 3rd party that was installed by me (Ram, HDD, network card cause mine died)
I was actually just going to format it before i take it in. Forgot to call em today, grr..
My only complaint, i'll have to reload everything! Unless i can find about 50gigs to make an image of my OS drive and throw it somewhere..hmm...
I still cant believe its under warranty. That made my week. Though i hope they dont need EVERYTHING, ie mouse and keyboard cause yea, i gave my original mouse to a now ex gf, and i'm using a 5 button belkin.
I'm sitting back watching my buddies have issues with Micro$oft and their XBox 360's. one guys on his 3rd, the other his second. Wont let them transfer/backup stuff they payed for, DRM wont let them move it, Microsoft is calling shenanigans since they've exchanged it and registered so many serial numbers, they think theres hacking going on...
If only other places were as caring as apple.

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