Partition scheme for PPC and Intel

I have a G4 mini and an Intel Macbook and one USB harddrive to back them up with time machine. I think I'll connect the drive to the mini and share the drive so I can back up the Macbook.
Anyway, I was reading:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306932
and it says to choose the "Apple Partition Map" scheme for use with PPC and "GUID" for use with Intel. Anyway, I was wondering what I should choose when I need to use it with both processor types.
Thanks for any advice!

Oops, it seems that a similar message appeared while I was posting this one, so I think I might as well just follow the discussion on that thread, sorry for the duplicate.

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