ICloud on an iMac PowerPC G5?

We have:
Mac Pro (Lion)
iPhone4 (iOS5)
iPad1 (iOS5)
iMac PowerPC G5 (Leopard -10.5.8)
We've been using MobileMe to sync our Contacts and Calendars on all our equipment even our old G5!
We're about to upgrade to iCloud and have been holding off hoping that a workaround might evolve for older Macs running older an OS like Leopard.
Is there any way yet (or ever) that we'll be able to keep our iMac G5 in the sync loop after converting to iCloud?
Thx,
Steven

FORGET USING iCAL on the PPC.
It just does not work with iCloud...End of Story...
We wish it would, but we all know that Apple will NOT update it for an out of date system.
Apple would tell us all to buy the latest Apple computer.
I personally do not use the icloud mail, as I have being using Yahoo for such a long time now and i can use it with MS Outlook on my windows laptop, and and it syncs to my icloud, and I use an iPad too.
Only tonight I updated my iClould calendar from my aging old iMac iSight ppc... using the icloud website. and the updates have appeared without problems on both my iPad and my windows based laptop using MS Outlook, all synced together via icloud.
My iPad is running IOS 5.0.1
So if you do not want to invest in a new all singing all dancing iMac.. then using the icloud website, and as Roger rightly points out configuring the mail application to accept icloud mail will be your only options.

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