How big a hard drive can I put in my mac

Hello everyone,
Inspired from succefully putting a new DVD-RAM burner in my iMac G4 800Mhz (thanks to this forum for helping me get the jumper switch setting right) I have now ordered a 250GB hard drive with the plan to open up my blob again and exchange the hard drive.
However, I have heard that the computer might not recognise a HD this big and that 128GB might be the maximum. Can anyone confirm/deny/agree anything on this? I am running on 10.3.9.
Also (while I'm here asking questions) can you tell me something else. If I put in the new hard drive, boot up with my OS 10.3.9 discs and instal the OS will that all then work and be fine? I have a new external case for the old HD so after the instal I plan to transfer my photos and music across to the new HD.
Thanks everyone.
Babble
imac G4 flat screen 800Mhz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I have a machine like yours 800mhz G4 iMac and I installed a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 250gb disk - much noiser than the Maxtor I took out but Seagate is one of the most reliable right now. I think you can put in any ATA100 disk, remember to set the jumpers on the new drive exactly the same as the one you're taking out (mine was master with DVD as slave but sometimes its the other way round).
I also installed a Pioneer DVR110 (now with firmware version 1.37 Region Free), and a 512mb stick of ram internally & 512mb sodimm on the base whilst I was at it.
My machine is just over 3 years old and i noticed that the heat conductive grease on the CPU had dried out so I removed the heatsink and carefully scraped of the dried stuff and reapplied a thin film of new silver based grease.
Don't forget to re-grease the other parts of the imac chasis to allow dissipation of heat.

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