Hard Drive Replacement - SATA Retail Boxes Marked For PC Not Mac

I accidentally posted this question in the " Questions about USB/FireWire devices and RAM" so I'm re-posting it here.
I've checked this forum for messages regarding the upgrade of an iMac G5 hard drive from an 80 GB to a higher capacity drive and the vast majority of the comments say to just purchase ANY SATA drive and pop it in.
So I visited CompUSA and I noticed that the retail boxes are marked with system requirements that are either PC or PC & Mac. Most of the SATA hard drives indicated specific system requirements of a PC but not a Mac.
Here's where you guys might be able to help me. I'm looking at purchasing this specific drive
http://tinyurl.com/jh924
The drive is a:
Western Digital Caviar
SE16
250 GB
7200 RPM
Internal
SATA-300
16 MB Cache
Model # WD2500KSRTL
The requirements on the box indicate a PC not a Mac.
One sales person said that a Mac takes any SATA Drive.
One sales person said SATA drives are different for Macs and PC's.
Yet another sales person said that the PC requirements are based on loading the software that comes with the SATA drive which is PC based.
The last sales person said that you need to get a SATA drive that indicates a Mac platform requirement because there are two types of SATA drives.
And some bystander threw in his two cents worth and said that I should buy any ATA indicated drive.
So I'm tossing this issue over to you Mac pro's out there.
Is it true what everyone has been posting that ANY SATA drive would do even though the box indicates a PC platform is required?
Thanks for the input...

Thank you Eric and Duane...
The new drive should be arriving on Thursday and will be complimenting my Lacie Porsche (whatever) 250 GB firewire back up drive.
Eric was correct regarding the included software for partitioning, migrating data and other disk utility programs. I stopped by another pooter store today and noticed that the majority of the retail drive boxes that indicated a PC platform included various drive utilities geared for a PC.
I don't understand why the drive manufacturers don't just mark all of the SATA drives as Mac compatible. They can at least increase their market share and revenue by selling SATA's to the 5% of Mac owners out there and with the new dual core chips they'll increase it even more.
Now if I could only figure out why my Mac won't sleep but shuts off instead...

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I believe these guide from neokenchi's post will help.
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