Migrating to a New Machine

I'm currently using a PPC Mac Mini, but recently purchased a used G5 to replace it. I'd like to have as seamless a transition as possible; I have an external HD enclosure which holds a SATA internal drive as my backup drive, and I'm planning on using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my Mini's startup drive to that external drive. Once that's done, I'd like to simply pull that SATA drive out of the external enclosure and mount it inside the G5.
From a software standpoint, is there any particular reason why that wouldn't work? I'm thinking back to the olden days, when system installs might come with specialized extensions or be custom tailored for certain pieces of hardware--is there likely to be anything in my Mini's system that would make the G5 say 'Wha?' and choke? Am I better off just using Migration Assistant, or could I theoretically just swap the drive in?
Any suggestions would be welcome! TIA!

I perhaps should have been clearer on the "new" machine--it's a dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 (PPC, not Intel).
According to these specs:
http://support.apple.com/specs/powermac/PowerMacG5.html
...the G5 came from the factory with a SATA drive, and the diagrams in the manual's section on adding or replacing an internal drive certainly appear to show SATA connectors on the drive. Am I missing something on that front?
As for Migration Assistant, does that grab all of a user's settings (i.e. preferences files in the Library folder, etc.) and incorporate them into the "new" machine's Library, or does it just grab my files (i.e. Documents folder, Applications folder, etc.) and copy them for me and leave me to put the pieces back together?
The biggest issue I'm trying to avoid is going back and rebuilding all of my preferences--stuff like resetting my network settings, rebuilding window layouts in Photoshop, all of the stuff that really personalized my Mini to the way I wanted it to be.
Thanks for the tips so far!

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