Installing Studio 2 over Studio 1

I've just bought a copy of Final Cut Studio 2 with FCP 6 off Ebay, a full install, not just an upgrade, and when it gets here, I'll want to install it on my G5 Mac, which for the last few years has been running the original Studio with FCP 5, in OS 10.5.8. Both the old and the new studio suites are the academic versions, if that makes any difference.
While I'm waiting for Studio 2 to get here, I'm wondering whether I will need to un-install Studio 1 before installing Studio 2. Or will Studio 2 just install right over the top of the earlier version and update anything it needs to?
I guess the question really is: what's the best way to install Studio 2 on a machine that already has Studio 1 on it, and which has been working fine on it for years?
Tom

Thanks for the advice. I just put two brand new 2 TB drives into this G5 about a week ago, because the old drives were over three years old, and from past experience that's about the age that they start to go bad on me. Plus I needed more room for things (the old drives were 1 TBs). I also picked up a quad-core G5 and switched over to that box to get a little extra speed and more memory for video editing. The final improvement will be the switch to Studio 2 after years of working with the earlier version.
But both of those new drives are stuffed with about ten years' worth of book manuscripts, videos created with Final Cut, the Adobe CS suite, and gobs of other stuff. A Time Machine backup onto a new external drive that I did before switching to the new hard drives took about seven hours, followed by many more hours to put it all back on the new drives with a Time Machine restore. Since installing into a different box broke the licenses for the Adobe apps and other programs, those all had to be reactivated, etc. Altogether a royal pain, but the payoff was getting new drives in a better Mac.
So now, I guess in order to do right by the Final Cut Studio 2 upgrade, I'll have to wipe the startup drive and replace the system and remove and install all the files and apps yet again. This is getting tiresome, but I guess you're right, and it's the price I'll have to pay to end up with a smooth running video editing system.
I still have the old G5 running the two old hard drives, with everything on them, so as an experiment I could try a simple install of Studio 2 right on top of Studio 1 into that Mac, just to see what happens. But I guess, from what I've been reading here, it's just not the best thing to do on my current Mac.
Thanks again,
Tom

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