Migrating from Tiger to Leopard Server

Hi,
I'm running two Mac Mini OS X Servers. One running Tiger and one running Leopard.
All my virtual hosting is done on the Tiger server.
I want to move everything over to the Leopard server, upgrade Tiger to Leopard (clean build) and then share accounts and sites between the two.
I guess I'm probably going to have to go down the Open Directory route - is that correct?
Does anyone have any good pointers of where to start this migration? Can it be done?
Any input gratefully accepted.
Cheers,
Stu

Done it the hard way.
StuG

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