Can I use Time Capsule to make clone of system BEFORE I upgrade to Leopard?

Am still on Tiger but have just bought Leopard. I'm looking at cloning my hard drive before I do anything.
My question is this: do I have to buy an external drive and a Time Capsule, or could I buy just the TC and use that to make a clone of my existing system before I do the upgrade? I need to keep costs down.
Also, is anyone able to recommend a good 500GB (I have 350GB used on my hard drive at the moment, though I can probably get that down) external Firewire drive?
I currently only have a 7/8 year old 80GB Maxtor external drive, and have been backing up iPhoto/iTunes etc (a bit haphazardly) to DVD.
Many thanks.

Sorry- Thought about that, but no location listed.....
Important features of an external enclosure would be an Oxford chipset firewire interface.
This enclosure uses ATA drives (separately, of your choice of drive).
Better, would be SATA drive support, like this 500gb drive enclosure.
This 750GB drive looks good also.

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