Back-up advice/assistance needed

hi, i have a titanium G4 with all indications of hard drive going bad and want to replace the HD. Meantime, tho i've read about Carbon Copy Cloner i'm still not clear just what the step-by-step should be as far as backing up everything before swapping out old HD for a new one.
As it stands, the Ti-Book is so slow that i hesitate trying to boot from it as the 'master' machine. What's the best way to replace the drive and restore the contents from the HD going bad....I believe what i need to create is a bootable Clone of its HD onto a firewire drive. Meantime, the only way to conveniently access the TI-Book is via Target Mode from a
healthy system. The Ti-Book is just running WAY too slow to boot into it - and the drive is making noise.
Anybody have a suggestion on the best approach to take with this. I'm thinking that if i could do the backup and restore using Target Disk mode from a desktop as the "master" machine that would be the easiest for me to understand but
need instruction on what the procedure would be for if i can do it that way...
Thanks much for any thoughts on this one.
Mike

And once you get the two Macs connected in TDM, I strongly suggest that you forget about cloning the old hard drive. For one reason, if it's already malfunctioning, you may not have enough time to clone it completely before it fails altogether. For another, its directory may have been corrupted already, and if that's the case, a clone of it may be nonfunctional even if it is completed successfully (or appears to be).
Instead of cloning, focus on drag-copying the most important data files from the problem hard drive (the Target) to the desktop Mac's (the Host's) hard drive. Never mind the OS, any applications that can easily be reinstalled from their original source CDs, and data that is already backed up. Concentrate on backing up your highest-priority data files first. Most of those will be in your Home folder inside the Users folder, by default.

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