Question about installing leopard on my iBook G4?

I purchased an iBook G4 in very good condition. It came with leopard already installed on it but the seller didn't include any discs with the iBook. Therefore I purchased a family pack (Retail Version) of Leopard off the of ebay for $60. I only have 1 Apple computer but I bidded and luckily won this Leopard Family pack.
Anyways, my question is if anything goes wrong with ibook and have to reinstall the Operating System, will the Family pack of leopard work?
Also will I have to reinstall all the other programs that are already on the computer as well; MS Office 08, iLife 08 etc. ?

cornelius wrote:
pblazen:
if anything goes wrong with ibook and have to reinstall the Operating System, will the Family pack of leopard work?
Yes. You can legally have Leopard installed on up to any five computers at a time.
will I have to reinstall all the other programs that are already on the computer as well; MS Office 08, iLife 08 etc. ?
Yes, you will. Some iLife apps are included on a Full Retail Version installer, although it is usually earlier versions of those apps. The full suite of iLife apps comes only on the original disk shipped with the computer, or by purchasing iLife separately. There is not a computer specific version of Leopard for the iBook G4, so iLife would have had to be purchased separately. While a new computer wwould have to be purchased separately.
I recommend that you purchase an external firewire HDD and clone/backup your entire computer to it. If you use a utility like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner you can make a bootable copy of your HDD, which you can update regularly. For more information on external HDDs and cloning please post back and ask.
cornelius
Thanks for replying to my post. Yeah I did purchase a 250GB (Firewire) external hard drive, downloaded Carbon Copy and saved my entire internal hard drive to it. So since I made a copy of my hard drive, do I still need this Retail Copy Leopard Disc?

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