About to install FCS2... sans leopard.  OSX suggestions?

I'm about to install FCS2. I have avoided installing Leopard on this machine until things have settled down a bit. I was hoping for any suggestions about which OS seems to have been the most stable for other users. I'm going to wipe the box and do a clean install; hold it to QT 7.2.

I have a Dual 2.0Ghz PowerPC Mac running MacOSX 10.4.11 and FCS 2 with nary a hiccup. Smooth as silk. On another drive I have FCS 1 running under 10.4.10...just fine.
I am getting a new MacPro soon. And on it I will run Tiger and FCS 2. Now, this was going to be the NEW MacPros that they announced before MacWorld, but I found that those machine come loaded with Leopard, and will not take a Tiger install. And Apple recommends against installing previous OS versions on new machines. So since the machine I need to buy will be a production machine on a Tiger SAN network (yes, I know that the N in SAN stands for Network...shut it) so I needed a Tiger machine. I'm not ready to try a production machine on Leopard yet.
ANYWAY...FCS 1 originally came as FCP 5...powerPC only. Then the Universal Crossgrade came out where you had to send in your install disks, so you would then have a version of FCS that worked on the Intel machines. FCS 2 is still a Crossgrade...works on PowerPCs and Intels.
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