OS X 10.4/5 Server with PC and Mac Clients - Advice Appreciated

I have inherited a OS X 10.4 server and a user base of about 15 fulltime PC users, 10 fulltime Mac users, 10 printers.
This thread will likely contain a LOT of questions as time goes on.
1. Should I set the PCs to Workgroup or Domain? As I have so many users I would prefer a domain setup but am not sure how that works with the OSX server.
2. Is it worth it to upgrade to 10.5? As the processor is a G5 I cannot go to Snow Leopard.
Thanks!

1: Domain definitely. Run Open Directory. Keep in mind you WILL NOT be able to support and run Group Policy extensions for the Windows Machines. I highly suggest you run Parallels or VMWare (if this is on a Mac Pro or XServe Intel machine) and run Windows Server 2008 or Small Business Server 2008 to manage the Windows Machines.
If you do not have a Mac Pro or XServe, or cannot afford to upgrade to a Mac Pro, then I would build a server class PC to run Windows Server or Small Business Server 2008. You can then lock down your Windows machines, run Exchange for collaboration (including push e-mail to iPhones, Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices), provide group policy and run WSUS to update your windows machines automatically.
Trying to patch the windows machines will be a royal pain in the butt without using Windows Software Update Services (part of Windows Server). You will also want an enterprise grade security solution that runs off of Windows Server, such as Trend Micro's Worry Free Business Security 6.1, to content filter, provide anti-virus and anti-malware security and spam filtering. You can use a web based console to check on virus scans, provide security lockdowns etc. There is NO enterprise grade security system that runs the web console off of Mac OS X Server at this time. There are plenty of clients (Trend Micro, Internet Security Barrier, Sophus etc), but no way to control the anti-virus clients on the Windows machines from the Mac server.
You can use your current mail, or if you go with Small Business Server you can run Exchange which is way more capable that the very limited mail capability in OSX Server 10.411. I ran 10.4 server until two months ago at my work, where we upgraded to 10.6.
Group Policy, which is similar to Workgroup Manager Server Preferences, will allow you to lock down and secure your windows machines. You can lock the screen, send software updates, provide firewall preferences etc. This requires Windows Server.
10.5 is totally worth the upgrade. It adds RADIUS support (you can secure and lock down your VPN connections with XAUTH and your wifi access points to require a username and password, rather than just a password), it provides MUCH improved Software Update Services (10.4 Software Update Server is severely limited; it also cannot upgrade 10.5 or 10.6 clients. 10.5 SUS can update 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 clients).
If you upgrade to OSX Server 10.5 you want to do a full bootable backup of the boot drive to an external Firewire drive. You can use CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper! to accomplish this. You can then attempt an upgrade, and if it screws up you can then restore the machine and plan to do a clean install and migrate your settings from the 10.4 install.

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