Leopard, FCE & iLife '09 on a G4

Hello everyone,
I'd posted a question on iMovie 6 in the iMovie forum, but I've since moved onto a new setup and felt it would be more appropriate in this forum.
As a birthday gift to my niece and nephews, I am giving them an old QuickSilver-SilverFace PowerMac G4, Dual 1.42GHz with 2GB of RAM that our tech department gave me. I want them to be able to run Leopard and iLife '09, but I know iMovie won't run on G4s anymore.
So I was thinking, after doing some online research, I can give them the G4, install Leopard and iLife '09, remove iMovie from the installation and install Final Cut Express instead. Every other software program I listed says that it will run on a G4 as long as it is faster than 867MHz.
Does this seem like a viable option, compatibility-wise?
Thank you, in advance, for your time and attention!
~FairGamer

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