Can someone tell me why I want to install a server?

Hi,
I was hoping someone can tell me if there are any benefits to installing Leopard Server. Here is my situation.
Running a small (new) photography business with my wife. We have,
Powerbook G4 1.5gig Laptop
Macpro Desktop.
Macbook Pro Laptop
Western Digital 1tb extrenal drive.
We use iCal to maintain our schedules, have our site hosted with a provider we are happy with, and other than that, I wondered if there would be any benefit to installing Leopard Server on the Powerbook G4, and connecting the other two computers wirelessly.
I am not to well up on server software, so I really just wanted to know if it would be worthwhile stringing the three computers together in some way. Please excuse my inexperience!
Thanks for any help given.
Hugh

To be clear, you don't need Server in order to connect remotely to your files. If 'on the road' you will always have internet access, you could connect to your file server and get files. The difference with Portable Home Directories is that you'd have copies of those files synced onto your laptops (assuming that they have big enough hard drives) before you left so that you wouldn't have to connect to the server.
As for the iPhone issue, I've seen a few things about being able to administer machines from your iPhone, but I don't think that they really support too much in that respect. Once the SDK is released (next month?), though, I imagine that people will start writing lots of those sorts of applications. A quick Google News searched uncovered this for accessing your Filemaker Pro from your iPhones:
http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/adminanywhereupdated_to_version103/
Finally, I forgot to mention in my previous message that if you are going to make one computer into a server, using OS X Server or otherwise, I think that the Mac Pro is the most logical choice. It will presumably always be in one place and can be left on and connected to the internet, whereas your laptops might at any given time not have an internet connection, be closed and asleep, or be flying at 30,000 feet on their way to Toronto. Plus, the Mac Pro is more flexible if you wanted to put some more internal hard drives in it or replace the hard drive if it fails, etc.
Greg

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