Mac Pro arriving today!

There is SO much info here that it's hard to find all help that I may need. Am I even posting in the right forum?!
So, any help with what I may run into would be MOST appreciated!
I just read that Tiger has a small app in Utilities called Migration that may help move files and apps over to the new machine...does it take ALL the files (hidden ones, too)? Like including the payed versions of Roxio's Toast Titainium? (I can't find where my product key is!)
I am MOST concerned that my version of Photoshop (7) won't work on the Mac Pro_but have been told that it will run fine, (via Rosetta?) is this true?
So, as you can see, I will be grateful for ALL comments!
Thank you...
Mark
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Soon: Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 250 HD 2GB RAM 20" Apple Cinema Display
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

All the advice I got prior to the arrival of my Mac Pro was to wipe the hard drive clean and start fresh with a new install. I was so antsy tho' I didn't want to wait and since I was transferring from one Intel system to another I figured if it didn't work, I'd wipe it clean and reinstall and then install the programs anew.
But it worked just fine. About a week later I was putting the Mac Pro box away, taking the items out of it for storage, when I realized Apple had not included any OSX disks at all. The machine was already preconfigured but still, I would need those disks should anything ever go wrong (of if I just wanted to boot from Disk 1 and use the utilities).
So I called and asked that the disks be mailed. The disks they sent were identified as "replacement" disks, not original OSX disks. It doesn't matter, of course, because they do the same thing but I wondered how a newbie might feel or do in such a situation.
So make sure your OSX disks are in the box, just in case. BTW, I've never had another reason to wipe out a hard disk and start anew. OSX just runs well for me. Every now and then I'll install a program that won't feel or sit right and when I verify the hard disk it will tell me to boot from Disk 1 and use the disk utility to correct the error.
As for the Office Demo ... when I bought the Mac Pro they offered me the option of throwing in a free (Canon, I think) color printer but I already had a fine HP Color Laserjet so I asked for (and got) Office for the Mac. So I never did see the Office demo product, the full version must have overwritten it.
But if you want to remove it without any residual files I suppose you could use something like AppZapper (which has a trial version that will allow you to zap three or five programs).
Tim...

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