New Apple user help re: emac g4 and OSX

I have always wanted and Apple Mac, but never had the time nor the money to consider until now. Well, at least I have the time - I purchased via ebay an emac G4 1.25MHz, 1Gig memory, 150 Gbyte hard drive, DVD combo etc. It came with OSX 10.5.8 installed along with ILife 08.
But no install or restore disks. I did not think that would be a problem until I started to browse this discussion group.
So - I can't afford retail version of OSX 10.5 and iworks/ilife (which I'd like).
My question is - can I install an earlier version of OSX - say 10.2 or 10.3, then buy the upgrade disks to 10.5 (which are much cheaper than the retail version)?

You don't need to erase the hard drive to instal a previous version of Mac OS X. Just do a clean instal/archive and instal.
Apple don't offer "upgrade" routes for the OS. You can upgrade for free via built in "Software Update" within the version you are running - ie 10.4 through to 10.4.11 - but there's no cheap option to go from 10.4 to 10.5.
At this point there is no real concern... only if you start to experience problems. (Sure, legally, you should have the disk, if you are using the software. In reality, people sell Macs with no disks, but software installed, and Apple are NOT going to come banging on your door like Microsoft because you're running their OS without the disk. There are no encryption keys for Mac OS. If Apple happily include their OS on all newly purchased Macs, it's hardly fair for them to say you can't use the OS on a 2nd hand machine.
That said - sure, if your system gets corrupted, you'll need an instal disk... as noted, you need a black labelled disk - UNIVERSAL INSTAL - or, an eMac 1.25GHz grey labelled disk. Thing is, from memory, the grey disks just say "eMac"... so if you buy one off eBay, it may not be the right one for your machine. So yes, a black label is best...
Because Leopard (10.5) is the last OS to run on these older PPC Macs, it still can be a bit pricey. But look on eBay etc and you may get a bargain.

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