Mac Box Set necessary to upgrade Tiger?

I have a MacBook Pro running on Tiger 10.4.11. My system won't allow basic updates (Safari, iTunes, Firefox, etc) until I
upgrade the system. I wasn't aware of this before. Now I'm behind 3 upgrades, making things tougher(?) I guess the route
to go is to buy the Mac Box Set(?) But Apple doesn't sell it anymore so if I buy it from Amazon, etc. I am assuming I need a
New, unused version - otherwise my computer will see it being "licensed" to another computer? Also, before I do that I
would like to give my computer a fresh start. Once I backup files and docs I'm wondering if it would help to Reinstall the
Tiger disc to restore it to original settings? Would that clean off any unknown/unwanted apps and such and create a better
base before installing the upgrade? Does that make sense? And third, it sounds too good to be true, to install a disc and
Voila! the system is upgraded. Is it that simple or what issues could there be? Thanks for any help!
P.S. My system meets the upgrade requirements and has plenty of space.

It looks like Snow Leopard is still available at least in the Apple online store.  You can get the box set and do the upgrade from that.  What you should do is a complete backup to an external drive, using, say, SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner, or even the Restore option in Disk Utility (see Disk Utility help for details) to create a clone of your HD. 
Then just do the upgrade from the install disks, then sort out any problems as they occur, knowing that you have the cloned backup that can get you back to ground zero if you need it.

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