Need to reinstall for new computer?

I had an iMac DV+ with a 40gb HD. The video/power board died on the iMac and instead of fixing it (expensive), I elected to get a used G4 from a friend.
I installed the iMac drive in the G4, and am able to boot from the drive just fine. The only glitch was that I had to change video settings for the VGA monitor.
My question is: Do I need to reinstall OS X? Everything works fine, but given that the G4 is a different processor than the G3, I wonder if a new install would give me G4-specific things that the iMac installation would not have.
Thanks for any info/enlightenment.

Malcolm,
Yes, I have the original Jaguar disks and the Tiger upgrade that I used on the iMac. Thanks for the Software Update suggestion, I had thought of that also. There wasn't anything there except a security update!
I'm in love with this machine, it's SO much faster than the iMac, even though the iMac was a 450mhz. Movies play better and the response time when switching/launching apps is amazing. I never would have guessed that the AltiVec would make such a difference.

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Hello and welcome to the forums;
According to the system requirements page for ACT! http://www.act.com/2009/system/#actprem2009 it is compatible with: "Palm HotSync Manager 3.5-4.1.0 (4.1.0 recommended for Windows XP, included with Palm Desktop 4.1.4e) and 7.0.2 (included with Palm Desktop 6.2)".
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