New office configuration - is Mac Mini Server a viable choice?

I am totally reconfiguring our business back office. We have 2 MacBook Pro's, 2 new IMac's, 2 older iBooks, 3 iPhones, and a newly purchased Time Capsule. We also have a Windows desktop that is solely used for Quickbooks accounting, as well as 2 HP printers.
We want to have seamless file sharing, program sharing, and printer sharing. A consolidated email would be nice.
If I purchase the min server, can I use one of the 500gb HD to use solely for a Windows accounting purpose, of which I could use Parallels or VM Fusion, and use the other 500gb HD for everything else. Is this the right direction for us or should we be looking at something else.

I use an older mac mini 1.85GHz as a server with SL.
I have 6 mac clients and two windows PC's I use the server for mail, group wiki's (10), I tunes server, file server, Ical/Address book server and as a home PC liked to the TV.
Set up can be a bit ricky if you are new to the OS, I am a PC technician used to Windows Server, and whilst the UI in SL server looks easier than windows (those nice on and off switches) there is lots to configure behind the scenes to make it sing properly.
The server will do all that you want and it does make sense to go with it especially as you have the macbook pros, set these up with PHD and you will sync back to the server nicely.
As far as quick books goes, just set up a share for the windows machines on the server, no need to use a separate drive, and the pcs will access the data seamlessly.
Enjoy !!!

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    Thanks,
    Hunter

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