Intel imac, viruses, and dwg's

Hello, I am looking to upgrade my G4 imac to a G5 Isight or intel. My questions are 1)will the intel unit allow viruses to interact when running XP programs in XP operating system? 2)Is anyone using any autocad type programs on a mac OS that would read or convert DWG's. Autocad is the only program that I have running that would need XP(or windows). If I can get away from autocad I can stay with a G5 which seems to be better at the current time for speed and performance. Any info would to helpful. Thanks
imac g4 Mac OS X (10.3.5)
imac g4 Mac OS X (10.3.5)
imac g4 Mac OS X (10.3.5)
imac g4 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

I haven't found an inexpensive AutoCad alternative for the Mac, at least not one that I liked. Most were expensive, some didn't have features that I use a lot, and one was buggy though it had some nice features I liked. If you just want a viewer, there appear to be some out there (a Google search of osx dwg got me a few links) but I haven't tried them.
I have AutoCad LT 2000 and I run it under Parallels on my Intel iMac with Windows 2000 as the guest system. There is a little bug related to the Acad crosshair and the cursor (often both are there, not just the crosshair) but otherwise it has been working flawlessly for what I do and is very usable, speed-wise. When running it in full-screen mode, it's like I'm using it on a PC. I imagine it would work on a G5 with Microsoft's Virtual PC, though probably too slow to be usable on a day-to-day basis. I also assume that newer and more professional versions of Acad would work with the setup I have, though I can't verify they'd be as speedy.
As a side note, one thing I noticed when checking out emulators was that XP ran much slower than Windows 2000 as a guest operating system. So I stuck with Windows 2000.

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