Need 3 suggestions on upgrading a G3 to Panther

I'm upgrading my mothers old G3 350mhz iMac to Panther. I need 3 suggestions please. Please keep in mind that she does basic things like Mail & Browse the net - nothing intensive.
1) She has 192 megs of ram. I'm I correct to assume it has 2 slots and probably one has 64 and a 128 ram chip in it. I'm guessing I could ditch the 64 chip and add a 256 or 512 in that slot and it would suffice for her needs?
2) She'll need a larger internal HD. I like Seagate. What type of HD does this take? I ordered from Egghead.com last time and was pleased, could someone please tell me which Seagates (either an 80 gig or larger) that they sell that would suffice for her. By the way, what's the max. HD it can take (like my cube, 125 gigs?)
3) Anyone that has a reputable link to a vendor that can sell me a copy of OS X Panther would be much appreciated.
By the way, she was hoping I could pull this off for around $150, but I'm wondering if it will take more like $200.

Newegg.com is exactly where I just ordered a new HD for it. In fact, I ordered the same exact HD for it that I put in my Cube a month ago, which is a 120 gig Seagate (hope it worx & is compatible). I was going to get an 80 gig, but for just 12$ more I got the 120 gig so it seemed like a no brainer. I'm guessing this iMac also has the 125 gig limitation as the cube, so I didn't go beyond 120 gigs.
Ordered 512 megs of ram from OWC and also I ordered the retail Panther CD's from OWC. Panther cost a little more than the ram, but after racking my brain on eBay looking at the Panther computer specific cd's (for example, Panther for eMac, Panther for Powerbook, etc...) I just decided to get the Universal CD which should be guaranteed to work. OWC also guarantees it for 90 days, so I feel confident about the purchase.
The idea of buying a $30 iMac 400mhz firewire motherboard off of eBay has intrigued me, but at this point I don't want to do that much surgery on the unit - that can be a future upgrade if needed.
Mom will be mostly using Safari, Mail, and dabbling with digital photos from time to time (just saving them and viewing them, no intensive post processing). I think these upgrades will suffice her for atleast 2 more years (I hope).
My one concern is that she is using Netflix now and asked me if she'll be able to preview the Media Player movie trailers there (she can't now as her media player for os 9.1 just doesn't seem to play many of the trailers). I'm concerned here because I read where media player 9's recommended speed is somewhere in the range of a 450mhz G3. Anyone know if it will still work at 350mhz speed with the upgrades I'll be making?

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    PCTFREE 10
    INITRANS 1
    MAXTRANS 255
    STORAGE (
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    MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
    PCTINCREASE 0
    BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT
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    INITIAL 1M
    NEXT 1M
    MINEXTENTS 1
    MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
    PCTINCREASE 0
    BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT
    NOCACHE
    NOPARALLEL;
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    regards,
    Sandeep

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