Planning on upgrading to Leopard

I've never upgraded a computer before, so I'm somewhat nervous about upgrading to Leopard. I don't have tons of money, so I don't want to damage my computer. I have a couple of concerns:
(1) I do have a rather "old" Mac. I have an eMac that I bought in 2005. It's a PowerPC G4 with a 1.42 GHz processor. It has an 80GB hard drive and 768 MB of RAM. So according to the requirements, I can install Leopard onto my Mac. But, Leopard requires 512MB to run, right? that that means I would have 256MB left over for my applications.
I want to know how will Leopard run with my current specs? Will it be quite slow? Or will it just run normally? I obviously don't expect it to run super fast.
(2) I've read that there exists at least two different ways to install Leopard. The one where it erases the hard drive completely and installs from scratch, and the one where it just upgrades the system and saves your personal info. I know there are supporters for both camps, but I want to know what would be the risks of doing it either way. Again, I want to be left with a working computer when I'm finished upgrading.
I would also like to know more about the method that saves your information. As in, how does it actually work? When I'm finished upgrading, will it just show me the Log In Window with all the users only everything will be upgraded or will I have to just re-create all the users and then obtain the information from a folder saved somewhere on the HD? (I've tried looking up some info on this, only I haven't found any that have specific details, idk maybe I didn't look hard enough...)
I think that's about it for now. I appreciate any information you can offer to me. Thank you very much for taking the time to help me out.
--DJ

Hi DJ;
The only comments I would add it to backup.
I always make a clone of the hard drive to an external Firewire drive before an upgrade. I then test the clone to make sure I can boot my system from it. The reason I do this is so that I can quickly get back to an operating system if anything goes wrong with the upgrade. There is always a possibility for that to happen so my feeling is it is better to be safe rather then sorry.
There are in fact three was to install the new system. There is Upgrade, Archive & Install and Erase & Install. Personally I prefer Upgrade which is also the default that Apple choose. I use it and test. If everything works I am done.
Allan

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    Once you are at 10.6.8 you can buy Lion from the App Store if you have at least a model 2,1 MacBook. Lion will require at least 2gb of RAM but really needs 4gb to run smoothly. Also Lion doesn't run any PowerPC programs. To see if you have any Power PC programs go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info. WhenSystem Profiler comes up select Applications under Software. Then look under kind to see if any of your applications are listed as Power PC. Universal and Intel will run under Lion.
    Before Mac switched to Intel processors they used Power PC processors from 1994 to 2005. Power PC 601 through 604, G3, G4 and G5. Applications written for the Power PC processors need an application called Rosetta to run on Intel processors. This was part of the Operating System in 10.4 and 10.5 but was an optional install in 10.6. With10.7 Lion Apple dropped support for Power PC applications.

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