Leopard compatability with Panther?

We, as a Design studio, are looking to purchase Leopard and upgrade, but our Data server is not up to the system requirements and is running on Panther quite happily, we dont really want to upgrade our server at the moment, it works fine, but if we were to upgrade to Leopard on all our other Macs will there be a compatability problem with Panther?

Oops, I told a fib. The Microsoft version I'm running is 2004, good news on Photoshop, and I'll double check on compatibility on Sibelius with their website. I think my friend runs this version of Sibelius on his new (within the past 6-8 months) MacBook Pro. I have everything registered so I might be able to get replacements if need be. Thanks to all of the reply's and if you have anything to add, keep 'em coming! And if all else fails, I'll talk to someone with at the Genius Bar and get an answer. Again, Thanks a bunch!

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    +-- Marc+
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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