Chinese input w/PenPower on Intel Mac

Hello,
I've finally convinced my father-in-law to switch to the Mac. The only
hangup seems to be the fact that he uses a writing tablet as his input
method for Chinese. After several searches, it seems that the PenPower
Handwriter is the only Mac option for doing this.
The guide here mentions that it will work with 10.4 if I download the
latest driver from Wacom:
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/input_methods.html#other
However, the site doesn't specify if this workaround will work on the
new Intel based Macs (we got him a Core Duo Mini). I checked the Wacom
driver and it is now Universal. I would hope that the PenPower
software would work with Rosetta and that the Universal driver would
allow the tablet to work correctly, but I can't say for sure.
Has anyone tried this yet? I'd like to hear some positive experiences
before dropping close to $200 on the tablet setup.
Thanks for any advice!
20-inch iMac G5 1.8; MacBook Pro 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Has anyone tried this yet? I'd like to hear some
positive experiences
before dropping close to $200 on the tablet setup.
You might want to ask on the chinesemac mailing list where the people who use this stuff are more likely to see your question:
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/group.html

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Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Parent: WindowServer [60]
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Build Version: 3
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