Need advice re upgrading from Tiger

I'm about to move to Leopard on my main production platform. Here are some (possibly dumb) questions:
1. Is there any way to end up with a Tiger/Leopard platform which uses the same user directories? Ideally, I'd like to be able to move between OSen and have the same user data available.
2. The machine has 4 internal drives. I plan to use Bootcamp and install Vista dedicating one of these (250 GB) drives to Vista. Sugestions? Cautions?
3. The most important production applications I use are CS3 and FCS 3. What do I need to worry about?
4. Anything else?
Thanks!!!
-Jeff

Some answers that may inspire further questions.
Item number 1. You CAN use the same user directories. In the Leopard User Accounts pref pane, ctrl click on a user name in the user name list to the left and you will get a menu offering "Advanced...". In the Advanced config, you can tell Leopard that the path for a users home directory is somewhere else. Just navigate to your existing User account and choose it. BIG CAUTION!!! This will cause a lot of grief if the user's UID are different between the two systems. UIDs are typically assigned in order, so you would need to create the users accounts in the exact same order in order to make this work. Otherwise, when changing OSs, you might find that you no longer own your own files under one or the other OS. I believe the best way to assure this comes out right would be to do an Archive and Install migrating user accounts. That should keep both OS version connected to the same accounts. This requires you to have enough room on a single disk for Tiger, Leopard and all your accounts.
Caution number two. Leopard will end up updating library pref files and setting for your apps to a Leopard format. If you switch OSs, Tiger may not be too happy with an occasional change. Be prepared for a little bit of weirdness if you keep going back and forth and expect to fully run each version.
Item number 2. Should work. I would make sure to disable Spotlight indexing on the boot camp drive. Also make sure Time Machine excludes that drive. It was defaulted to excluded for me, but your mileage may vary.
Item number 3, Sorry no experience there.
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