Best way to move WFE to new server

We have one web front end server and one sql server. I want to simply move the existing web frotn end server to new hardware. What is the easiest way to do this? Also, the last admin did not patch the existing site to SP2. If I
install Sharepoint 2007 sp2 and attach it to databases that are on the original Sharepoint 2007 RTM version, will it upgrade the database schema or will this cause problems? We only have on site colelction with about 13 GB of data, its not a complicated
environment but there is a lot of data there. I want to do this as simply as possible, thanks.

The basic three steps that need to followed while moving to new hardware are.
Set up the new server farm
Make sure the versions of database are the same in this step.
Move the databases to the new server farm
Since you don't have many webapplications, in fact just one, you could do an stsadm backup of the web application and restore it on the new web app. And then Apply SP2 along with all the other cumulative updates.
You will have two farms running at the same time at this point providing redundancy.
Shut down the old server farm
That is probably the best approach I would prefer. You can always read the following technet article..
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725(office.12).aspx
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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