Can I clone a G4 HDD to a G5 HDD?

Hi,
Can I clone a G4 HDD to a G5 HDD?
It will save me hours of time reloading all my apps but wasn't sure if it would cause any problems?
The G4 is a power mac 733mhz quicksilver and the G5 is a late 2005 dual 2ghz power mac.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
G4 QUICKSILVER   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Do a Erase W/Zero and a fresh install on the new G5, setup with the same user name. Then hook up a firewire cable and t boot one machine so the hard drive appears on the other and transfer files (install apps from original sources if all possible), itunes folder in the exact same location. User/Library/Mail...Safari folders in same location.
Disconnect and iTunes de-authorize the G4 and rename the G5 hard drive the same as the G4. Start iTunes on the G5, authorize and your playlists should be preserved.
Using a another machines OS in a different type machine is not advised. Using a earlier clone isn't advised either. Don't use Migration Assistant, especially for apps.
Start off with a as much as a fresh drive/OS/apps as possible while you got the opportunity. Clean house and start with a fresh slate. The reason for this is security issues that you might not be aware of with earlier exploitable versions of the OS. You might have a backdoor open and don't even know it.
Also if you upgraded Tiger over Panther your using a less secure OS, a fresh Tiger install with a immediate update to the latest version is highly advised.
Zeroing all brand new drives one time rewrites the bad sector map that mishandling of the drives/machine can cause. Driver software does this for you as you use a drive, but uses your data as a guinea pig which causes OS glitches and lost/corrupted files before the bad sector is mapped off.

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