PowerBook G4 and iMac G4

I have a PowerBook G4 and an iMac G4. They are both about 3 1/2 years old. The PowerBook is running 10.4.3 and the iMac is running 10.1.5
I am wanting to use the PowerBook as my main computer and use the iMac similar to an external monitor and an external hard drive space. I've asked around but no one seems to know the answer. I was thinking I'd just use a firewire but that doesn't seem to give me what I want I don't think. I want to use my PowerBook as a portable, and then attach it to my iMac when I get home so I can use the bigger screen and have some extral space for things I don't need on my PowerBook.
Any ideas how to do this? Anything would be a help. Thanks.
Will

The iMac can't be used as an external monitor. It doesn't have any video input capabilities.
When you say was thinking I'd just use a firewire, I assume you mean Target Disk Mode, so you may have already exhausted your options. Here they are anyway:
The nearest thing you could do to what you want is use your PowerBook as a portable and then attach it to the iMac in target disk mode, so the PowerBook becomes a disk on the iMac. That way you'll have access to all your files, and get to use the iMac's bigger screen. You'll be using the iMac's processor and RAM, and as you don't say what model or configuration you have, I'm not sure how it would compare to the performance of your PowerBook. But I assume since they are both 3.5 years old that the iMac is faster than the PowerBook.
You say that you iMac is running 10.1.5. I think you'd want to update that to 10.4 if you were going to run this configuration.
The other option is to run the iMac in TDM on the PowerBook. This way you'll have access to 10.4 without upgrading the iMac, access to all your files on both HDs, but not the advantage of the iMac's screen or possible speed advantage.
One other option would be to sell the iMac and buy an external monitor (17" or 19" LCDs can be found reasonably priced) and FireWire hard drive to replace it. This would give you an ideal setup - provided you could live without the standalone iMac

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