Can I connect a modern LCD to an early G4?

I have an early G4 with an AGP Rage 128 Pro graphics card with 16 Mb VRAM. My CRT monitor is dying and I would like to replace it with an LCD monitor. When I look at the monitor settings I have available in System Prefs, the highest is 1600 x 1200.
I am thinking of 20-inch monitors, either the Dell E207WFP (max: 1680 x 1050) or the 67% more expensive Ultrasharp 2007FP (max 1600 x 1200). I'm confused by all the specs, and since Dell is mail order, I don't want to buy the wrong thing.
I use my G4 for page layout: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator (not games or viewing DVDs). If I buy a new monitor, I want to use all the screen area. So, I have three questions:
1. Will the Dell E207WFP (max: 1680 x 1050) leave me with black bands of wasted screen at the top and bottom? I'd prefer to buy this monitor because of the price, but not if it is a waste of screen space.
2. Both monitors say they have DVI and VGA (HD-15) interfaces. I'm guessing my video card does not support DVI, so I will have to use analog. Correct? Does this result in an inferior picture (worse than a CRT, or just not as wonderful as a DVI)? I can live with CRT quality.
3. Are they likely to be plug-and-play if I use the VGA connection? Can I buy Apple's DVI to VGA display adapter and get true digital, or will my card not support this?
Sorry for being a dummy, but any help would be appreciated.

I orginally hooked it up via VGA and It looks
amazing. I recently bought a DVI cable for better
quality but when I connected it, there was no
difference in picture quality. Am I missing something
or is my video card incompatible with DVI?
DVI can show improvement in fine horizontal detail. It will be most obvious on a one pixel wide vertical black line on a white background. With DVI the black pixels will get the digital value of 0. With VGA, the analog signal goes from 1 volt, to 0, then immediately back to 1. If the display does not sample the voltage at exactly the right time, it won't get the 0, but will get the voltage part way up on one side. Even if the display does sample at the correct time, the voltage may not be 0 because of bandwidth limits in the cable rounding off the signal. OSX does text smoothing, so you may not see much difference there.
The specs on the Samsung say the monitor it is both
Mac and PC compatible but the drivers on the Samsung
site are for PC and so are the drivers on the disc
that came with the monitor.
You don't need any display drivers for OSX.

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