Install on G4 Drive (but upgrading to a new intel system)

I Have an old G4 with specific settings on both the system and some apps that I want to retain when I upgrade it to an Intel based system.  i.e. Not start from scratch, or simply migrate files.
I've used SuperDuper for bootable clones for years, and I have plenty of external drives for backups and dupes.
I'm trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard on that old G4 hard drive that I have removed (and will eventually put into a polycarbonate, intel MacBook). I can boot from that G4/Leopard drive via a FireWire connection, but I cannot get Snow Leopard to install onto that drive. I keep getting the error that it is not formatted and "Extended (Journaled)" when I run the Snow Leopard install disk.
I tried formatting another drive as "Extended (Journaled)" then using SuperDuper to clone the Leopard image to that drive, but it apparently still creates the wrong format in the process.
Is there another way I can go about this (Time Machine?), or am I doomed to recreate all of these settings?

Clone the content of that drive to one which is partitioned using the GUID format. The old drive probably uses the APM partition table format, and a Mac OS X installer run on an Intel Mac won't install onto those drives.
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