What is my best upgrade path

K, I have been wanting to get a usable apple, but dont have alot of cash to blow on it. I got a G4 450 fro $20 at a surplus sale. I realize that is it a 8 year old machine, but i thought it would still be usable, running tiger.
I can not get to to display video, see my other thread for details http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1411241&tstart=0
It may be a cpu/logic board issue, I an considering swapping them out from a faster machine.
Would this be worthwhile, or should I just trash it and try to get a faster machine.
If so, what should I look for?
Thanks

Thanks Melophage. I've been looking into my options, together with the advice you gave. It seems like I can salvage quite a bit of data after a fresh install if I follow the steps here - OS X: Manually migrating data from another Mac. However, applications are my (only) concern -- for my iLife suite apps (which as I mentioned, are old -- '09 editions) how can I restore those after installing Mavericks fresh? Can I just plug in the original Snow Leopard disc that says applications on it, to install? Or would they show up in Mac App Store (I think not since they are so old and I haven't purchased '11 with this account yet).
My wife's computer also has some third party apps which would be a pain to reinstall but not end of the world, I suppose. Another route of migrating and keeping these (but still doing a fresh OS install) might possibly be according to OS X: How to migrate data from another Mac using Mavericks, which is really designed for multiple computer copying. But with the SSD external, could I install Mavericks and then take a Time Machine backup of my internal (original) HDD, including those apps, and then follow these steps to import them into the Mavericks install on the SSD, once I booted into it? Does that make sense?
After some further reading on the subject, I found a lot of difference of opinion (especially on some MacRumor threads) about whether to install fresh OS X or upgrade, but I guess if the install ends up cleaner it could be worth it to install a fresh copy.
Any comments on the above approaches, or thoughts from others here? Thanks again for your help.

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