Newbie question: any tips on preparing to migrate to 10.5 Server from local

accounts?
here's the situation: i have a client that has about 15 Mac users, all of them are on 10.5 and they all have local user accounts.
this company shares their network and file sharing resources with another company on the same floor that is all windows based. the file servers are windows based.
my client is trying to separate itself from the other company and one of the things it is interested in is setting up an Xserve with 10.5 Server running.
the client wants to be able to manage software updates and resources for his users. he also wants to have a Mac Server set up for file sharing instead of sharing a windows server with the other company.
i am new to setting up 10.5 Server (or any other version) so i am not sure what i need to do before setting this up, or migrating. i think it i had to set this up from scratch i could but since they already have local user accounts and file sharing already set up, i am not sure how to get started.
i guess my main concern is getting all the local user accounts into Work Groups with out anyone losing any data.
any help is appreciated.
thanks!

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