Moving everthing from emac to XHD b-4 new install

I have an emac 1.25 10.39 and am getting ready to do a new install of Leopard 10.5. Our main priority is moving music and photos to an XHD and bringing them back to the emac intact and in their proper folders. Anything to be aware of or to watch out for? Been putting this off because I'm afraid things won't go back to where they were.
Thanks.
Mr. McTev

Better is to put a bootable backup/clone onto the ext HD, ensure that it works like the original, and just upgrade the original or the backup/clone. That guarantees everything is in place, including all of your user information. See these for details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html

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