Power Mac G5 and Applications

I'm currently in the market to buy a new Power Mac G5 Intel based. My question is, will my current programs run on the new mac?
I currently use most often: Adobe Creative Suite CS, Studio 8, FlightCheck Professional, QuarkXpress.
Are there any problems I may run into from switching over?
Is there any classic environment at all? I know when I purchased my G4 it didn't come installed on it, but you could install it from the disk.
Your help is much appreciated.

Intel would be Mac Pro, not G5 similar looking case, forum is over here).
CS3 is Universal Binary. CS2 works also but under Rosetta as do any PPC programs. And there is no official Classic environment.
Just don't migrate older PPC programs, plan on doing fresh installs.
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