Best practices-upgrade to Universal FC Studio

I have the pre universal installed.
Works fine for the G5 but I can migrate to a universal edition for the same machine (G5).
Question: My personal advice is to ditch all of the old versions but there is no one specific reference on removing an earlier studio application or uninstaller(hint-this is a good idea with Automator I think). I would like NOT to scratch the drive and start anew.
Maybe a manual trash where the applications, their application support files, and preferences are sent to the can. Is there anything else?
Is there a better way?

Before upgrading make sure to back up your current installs (particulalry DVD non-Universal version) Usually just making a copy of the apps themselves in the Application Folder should be okay and you can use them if needed, and if you have any other version of DVD SP you will need it.
Then just install - no real need to delete all the other items because they should update fine. (Though I think there was an issue with some Compressor presets).
You can also ditch all packages, receipts and prefs prior to installing the new software. Usually a good idea to repair permissions both before and after the install also.
As an aside, if you computer is running well, projects are working and being completed, and you have all the apps in the Studio, such as Motion, already running, you may just want to put the Universal Binary on the shelf until you get a MacIntel that needs it.
Final Cut (the Apllication) Universal does run well (and maybe you should install that), the others are a draw, Compressor seems to have thrown a couple of bugs (not sure where, maybe it is Tiger 10.4.8 and Quicktime) although on my MacIntel it does seem alot better than it has been in terms of quality and DVD SP 4.1 has some real issues - such as menu creation - which makes it not great to use.

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> Hi mates,
>
> I've a few questions regarding the upgrade to PI
> 7.0.
>
> If the upgrade process is done in phased manner i.e.
> DEV, QA, PRD in that order over a period of 3 weeks,
> How do we handle the transports from DEV->QA->PRD
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>
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