10.5 on Power Mac Dual G5

When I tried to install Leopard on my Dual G5 Power Mac tower, I was plagued with a multitude of problems...most of which involve my Adobe CS2, my printers and iTunes 7.5...
Is there anyone else with my kind of problems, and can you offer any solutions?

My dual G5 has 2 internal disks, so I cleaned the second one up and installed Leopard on it and migrated everything over from Tiger which is still on the first disk.
No problems and it's now a dual-boot box.
You might check to see if your Adobe is Leopard compatible.
What is the printer problem?
Are you a subcriber to iTunes or do you just use it to catalog music?
There might be an authorization problem if you are a subscriber. I read somewhere it was best to deauthorize it and then reauthorize it after the upgrade, but since I don't use it that way, I don't know.

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