Move my main harddrive from PowermacG5 to 8-core MacPro?

Hi,
I just bought an 8-core MacPro and gave up my PowermacG5. I still have my main harddrive with all programs installed, my data, etc...
This is only my second Mac so I never had to migrate data between machines before but here's my question:
Can I just pop in my old drive into my new Mac (instead of the main drive) or do I need to go through some migration assistant, considering it would now be working from an Intel processor?
Or should I just put it in as a secondary drive and copy the files over?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You can use it as a secondary drive and migrate data off it. I did exactly this, about 2 weeks ago, when I migrated from my Quad G5 to my 8-core Mac Pro.
You cannot boot off your current G5 drive -- it has the PPC version of Mac OS X and your Mac Pro needs the Intel version. With Leopard this won't be an issue (It's a Universal OS), modulo GPT partitioning stuff (not an issue as you'll have migrated to Intel way before that
As far as migrating, I suggest using the Migration Assistant only to migrate user home folders, and manually migrating system settings and Applications. there have been rumors here of issues using MA to migrate the Apps and System Settings from PPC systems to Intel systems.

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