FCS2 on Tiger 10.4.1

Is there anyone running Final Cut Studio 2 on the intel 2.66 or 3.0 using tiger operating system? If so how does it perform & are you happy with it,
Is there any problems with compressor or DVDSP?
Thanks

We have three MacPro 3.0Ghz machines here running OS 10.4.11 and FCP 6.0.2, and they are running smooth. QT version is 7.4.1...not going beyond that.
Shane

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    Message was edited by: joeldm

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