Iphone requires new itunes requires osx upgrade ?

help ... finally got my kid an iphone 3 ... we have an older iMac with osx 10.4.11 and 1.25 GHz Power PC G4
it seems that to sync the iPhone 3 with iTunes, my iTunes must be upgraded to ver 10.5 ... which seems to mean that my osx must be upgraded to 10.5.x
am I correct ?
what is the best way to go about this ?   and by best I mean EASIEST and FASTEST and without damaging any of the many things installed by all members of my family over the last several years
THANKS

Check to see if your Mac meets the hardware specs for Leopard 10.5
If it does, backup your data. I suggest a clone with either CCC or SuperDuper to an external disk.
Buy Leopard DVD.
Install Leopard
Install iTunes 10.5
Allan

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