Best way to move network profiles to client machines

Hi,
I have a client who has a small network of minis and iMacs working off of an old G4 running OS X Leopard Server. They have been using networked profiles, but have recently decided to get away from them and go with a local profile on each computer.
What is the best way to safely move the networked profile data to each client? What I was thinking of doing was zipping each profile folder on the server, copying it to an external drive, then creating a local profile and copy/paste the data into that folder. However, I'm concerned about messing up data permissions.
Any hints?
Thanks!
Alan

That's what I thought. But as long as I can re-assign them it'll be okay.
Thanks for confirming that for me.

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