Advice needed: replacing Mini with a new one

My Mac Mini has been used as the house's file server. I have a number of external drives attached to it and have had one dedicated for a TM backup of Mini. (The Mini booted from an external drive, it's internal system drive wasn't used.)
I discovered that the Mini has died, the drives seem okay. Since it was old, I decided to order a new Mini. My question is what process do I use to get stuff back on it?
1) Should I set up the new Intel Mini to boot from the old Mini's external system drive? Or is this not good due to disk format issues and system differences?
If I shouldn't use the old external boot drive, then I'll just use the new internal drive (it will have Leopard, after all), set it up and later SuperDuper it to the external boot drive. Now for the TM question -
The old (external) boot drive didn't have much besides Leopard. It did have a limited number of files in my (admin user) home folder that I'd like to get back from the TM backup.
2) Will I have a problem accessing that backup since the new Mini will have a different MAC address (hence won't correspond to the old TM backup)? Will I be able to use "Browse other Time Machine Disks" options from the TM dock icon?
Any advice on the best approach to handle this will be welcomed.

Joe Cowley wrote:
You can keep the old TM backups which will reside in a folder with the name of your old Mini, and if your new Mini has a slightly different name, then new TM backups will reside in a new folder. I would stand to be corrected on this, but I think if your new Mini has exactly the same name as the old, the TM Backups will continue in the folder of the old Mini but having gone through a complete backup of your new Mini.
I think you might be right about that but I also think that the machines have to be virtually identical for it to be a reliable backup. My experience has been it is better to start from scratch anyway with a new machine.
Back to the OP, If this is a file server, I would recommend using a more robust backup regimen in conjuction with TM. [Rsync|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync] or another dedicated backup solution.
[Carbon Copy Cloner (free)|http://bombich.com] or [SuperDuper!|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper> are examples.

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