1.42GHz Mac mini + Leopard = Recommended?

So I have a PPC Mac mini, 1.42GHz. I was wondering whether anyone had upgraded a similar configuartion to Leopard. Being a 17 year old student, I don't have the money at the moment to buy a new Mac (which I'll probably do before Uni anyway). I upgraded the mini to 1GB RAM a while ago after it was feeling a bit sluggish. Lately I have been noticing that Tiger is a bit slow. Like I usually have DVD player in the background whilst something is on and I'm browsing the web on Safari and checking my RSS in NNWLite.
Will I get a big performance hit upgrading to Leopard? Word takes a few minutes to load, and if I'm going to battle with more problems of slow loading programs, I'd rather not.
Safari crashes a lot for me I think, but then I tax it a lot whilst having at least 3 tabs open, and then clicking links from my RSS feeds.

I was quite looking forward to the transparent dock after some time looking at it in developers screenshots, but it really does feel out of place when you have it in front of you! None the less, that's just my opinion. (There is an optional freeware app you can download that will allow you to make the menu bar transparent if you wish - can't remember its name)
Core Image is basically a technology that Apple really boasted in Tiger, which took the strain off your cpu and used your graphics processor to manage everything visual and do it really well. Our mac mini's do still have that powerful capability with their own individual graphics processing chip, but the ATI 9200 didn't quite measure up to what Apple wanted at the time that they worked on the technology behind Core Image.
It's basically just for eye candy's sake (which we all crave!) such as the rippling effect when you drop a widget onto the dashboard. Our ATI 9200 chips don't display this because Apple didn't want to include them in the whole Core Image package.
It seems a bit silly really, because cover flow in the finder in leopard is absolutely smooth, no jumpiness like there is in iTunes. Technically speaking we should be able to to manage Core Image, but it's just one of those things! It barely makes any difference at the end of the day.
-Pos

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