Important Questions for MAC AMATEUR photographers - is it worth it to change what works

Greetings,
I have been following this products evolution.
Currently I have a system that works very well. After a shoot I follow the following workflow.
1) BAck up originals on a external drive.
2) Import into Apple iphoto
3) Preview and set keywords and albums with iphoto
4) Edit in Photoshop CS2
5) Share with pbase or Picasa online albums
6) Backup the iphoto directories regularly
The idea of the enhanced digital asset management capabilities with Lightroom is attractive but I question how much value it would add to my current workflow. Some questions that is raises are:
1) Lightroom performances on a imac G5 with 2GB of RAM
2) Should I use the Lightroom library structures or good old physical directories which are nice if the MAC is down and I want to use a backup windows computer
3) Still not sure of the best practices for maintaining and backing up lightroom libraries
Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks!!!!

To answer your points and I use an iMca G5 with 1.5gb ram.
1) Lightroom performances on a imac G5 with 2GB of RAM
Mine goes really well, pretty fast, certainly fast enough for me with Nikon D200 files mostly.
2) Should I use the Lightroom library structures or good old physical directories which are nice if the MAC is down and I want to use a backup windows computer
I would use physical structures as I find the iPhoto ones rather cumbersome/difficult to use, which is one of the reasons why I stoppped using iPhoto!! Another being I like the LR Develop and Print modules.
3) Still not sure of the best practices for maintaining and backing up lightroom libraries
Ihave LR set to back up the library evry day and keep the latest two, deleting the rest.
Files ought to be backed up somewhere else. I put the original raw files on DVD too and import to LR as DNG. If the crunch came I can always go back to the raw!!
Hope this helps and most of all:
Enjoy LR!!!

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