How can I burn an updated (10.4.5) boot disk that includes 3rd party apps?

My install disk is ancient (10.4.0) and, when I run disk first aid, I also like to run Disk Warrior and, perhaps, Drive Genius. Please tell me how to burn a bootable DVD with a simple, yet adequate system, that also contains 3rd party utilities as well as Safari and other Apple apps.
Many thanks!
PowerMac G5 1.8 GHz Dual   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   1.5 G RAM, DSL (sometimes with router)

There are two ways to do this that will work better than a DVD. I have a portable firewire drive I take home every night and back to work again in the morning. I have a system installed along with Disk Warrior so I can boot off of it whenever necessary to run repairs.
The second method also involves a firewire HD. Use SuperDuper! to clone your system HD on to the firewire drive. Then everything is backed up (which you should be doing anyway) and you also have a system to boot from with all your apps on it.
I really can't emphasize this enough, but back up is very important and will save you much time and pain. Take these examples:
When I installed Tiger for the first time I had cloned my HD just before that using SuperDuper! Sure enough, I ran into problems almost right away but was in the middle of deadlines and did not have time to deal with it for a few days. I merely rebooted off the clone which still had 10.3.9 on it and went to work like nothing was different, because it was exactly my hard drive. Then when I had time I went back and figured out the issues with Tiger.
On a recent update to 10.4.5 I cloned my drive right before then did the download and update. I rarely have any problems with updates but this time I did with things acting strangely. Rather than waste time trying to figure out what was wrong I booted off my clone and restored my system back to when it was running fine. Then did the update again and this time no problems.

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