Questions (lots!): OS9.2 onto a G4 w/10.3.9

I'm sure what I'm looking for is redundant but I looked through the questions for over an hour and can't quite figure out the best answer to my problem. Please.....take a seat. This is gonna take a while - I have a lot of questions and at this time am very confused. First, I'll begin with some very recent history:
A few weeks ago, while attempting to list an auction on a certain, on-line auction sight, I discovered that the "new & improved" listing page no longer supports OS9 (no "browse" button appears on the "add pictures" page). That issue coupled with the growing inability to view many websites to their maximum, I finally broke down & purchased a good, used G4 with a 10.3.9 operating system already installed (no discs for that system were included). The original G4 three disc package, however, was included, (Power Mac Software Install Disc-SSW version 9.1, Software Restore Disc and Hardware Test Disc).
I just got the machine up & running this evening and have only been using it for a few hours; just long enough to discover that getting all my current software into it is going to be much more challenging than I might have imagined. The manual for the G4 says it can be done via ethernet or firewire (I have no idea what firwire even is!) I need to go about this as cheaply as possible because after buying the new computer, I'm about out of funds.
Some more facts which might be helpful:
**I can't burn a CD of my other operating system because I don't know how (I have an external Sony Spressa CD burner which came with my G3 iMac when I bought it (used) but I've never been able to get it to work. (I can't leave the program file in my extentions folder or it causes really strange things to happen like noises & freezing up!)
**The person I bought my new computer from said the original discs for the G4 would override the OS 10.3.9 Can I install just the 9.1 portion or will I lose everything like she said?
**Some of the Programs I want to install because I can't live without them: Photoshop LE, Quark Xpress, Kodak Camera Software (I have installation discs for all of these). Adobe Illustator & Microsoft word for Mac (no installation discs for these), oh, and how could I forget Simpletext!
**Hundreds of photos & documents created using previously mentioned programs
Could I or should I try to network the two machines? Would that be better because of the shear volume of stuff to transfer?
Could I use the install discs from the old iMac? I think they are only 8.2, though.
If I put everything onto the G4, will I be able to have a separate desktop icon to open OS9 from?
Will I be able to flop back & forth between the two without a lot of trouble? ei: List auction with 10.3.9 using pictures edited & stored in Photoshop in 9.2?
Some Comments:
I like the new machine so far for internet navigation & speed (and no more "chewing noises"!!!) but a few things I don't like: I hate not having the trash can right on the desktop. Also, I really miss not having the column on the upper right (where your open programs were listed) and how am I going to live without an APPLE MENU ITEMS?!!!! Oh, wo is me!.
I love Mac but I wish they would get some place and stay there. It's getting frustrating (& expensive) with all the changes that have happened. Keeping up with mac is starting to be like keeping up with video game machines. (A new one every couple of years that makes the old one obsolete to the tune of hundreds.) I hope they don't get any more PC-like, either. When their mouse starts to have two buttons, it's all over!!!
It's scary reading the problems some were posting about the new Intel machines and classic programs. I'm already fearing the day when a non-Intel mac becomes obsolete. At the rate I'm going, that might be next year!!!
Well, sorry, this is so long but I wanted to give as much info as I could (oh, and some comments!!). Anyway, thank you for any help and/or best advise in advance and in closing something to make you smile (I hope!)......
Mac is so much better, limitations and all
The idea of going PC makes my skin crawl......
Power MacG4 640 mb 10.3.9 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Other computer:iMac Power PC G3 350mhz 60MB (slot load) )S9.2
Power MacG4 640 mb 10.3.9 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Power MacG4 640 mb 10.3.9 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi, noopysma. There are, as you've guessed, a lot of things to learn about using OS X that will take some getting used to. You've successfully put off learning any of them for about six years since OS X was introduced (just as I did for about 3-1/2 years), and now you're up against it.
The first thing to understand is that you're using a pirated copy of OS X 10.3.9. Because you didn't get the installation discs for it, you don't have a legal right to use it. You should buy your own retail Panther installer disc set. Doing so will both make you right with the law and enable you to troubleshoot and repair various minor problems that may arise, and to reinstall the OS should that become necessary at any time.
Your G4 can still start up from the OS 9.1 CD that originally came with it, assuming you were given the right original installer discs with the computer. Ignore answers #1 and #3 from julien2992 above; they're incorrect. Start up from the "Power Mac Software Install Disc-SSW version 9.1" (holding down the "c" key as usual to force the CD to be the startup disc). After startup is complete, you should find an "Install OS 9.1" icon on the CD. Double-click that to open the installer. Now: are you able to select the G4's internal hard drive as the target for the installation? If so, wonderful. Select the drive and proceed to install OS 9 using the Clean Install option. Be sure to read this article first. It will be reassuring to you:
Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9: Performing a Clean Installation
The reason to use the Clean Install option is that you probably don't know whether any remnants of a previous OS 9 installation may be present on the hard drive, and you don't want them to be used if they are. The Clean Install option will cause them to be disabled and sequestered, and a pristine new System Folder to be installed.
If you're able to go ahead and perform a Clean Install of OS 9, you'll then be able to select OS 9 as the startup OS in the Startup Disk control panel, before quitting the installer. Restart the Mac from its hard drive in OS 9.1, and you will then be able to apply the downloadable updates to 9.2.1 and 9.2.2.
Once you've done that, you'll be able to start the G4 in either OS 9 or OS X from its hard drive, and you'll also be able to run OS 9-based applications in Classic mode when the computer has been started up in OS X. (The first time you open a Classic application in OS X, OS X will probably inform you that some Classic components need to be downloaded and/or updated. Go ahead and okay that. Afterward, your Classic apps should open up and run in Classic without any further interruptions.
If you can't see the hard drive to select it as the target for the OS 9.1 installation, the hard disk driver for OS 9 was not installed when OS X was installed by the previous owner, and you'll have to use Drive Setup to reformat (erase) the hard drive — wiping out the installed OS X 10.3.9 and everything else on it — to install the OS 9 driver. This may be the first of many occasions when you'll need your own OS X installer discs, because you'll have to reinstall OS X if that's the case.
Any OS 9-based applications for which you have the original installer CDs should be installed from scratch using those CDs, not copied form your old Mac. Applications for which you have no installer CDs may be problematical: if you never had the CDs, your copies of the apps are, like your OS X, pirated and illegal, and it may not be possible to copy them from one drive to another and have them continue to function. If you did have the CDs once but you've lost them, you will at the least need to re-enter your serial/registration/activation number for each app when prompted, after copying the app to the new machine's hard drive.
This should be more than enough to keep you occupied for a while. Post back to let us know how you're progressing.

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Wow - So many disgruntled iTunes users. I am feeling the same way today.
Admit I've used an iphone for nearly a year now (4S and now the 5).
It took me a while to figure out the latest iTunes when I scored the i5, but so far I've managed to get a lot of songs onto it.
feels a little more cumbersome perhaps.
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He makes no mention of including the software discs. So, if something bad really happens with this Mac, at some future time, if you did not backup the Mac and software, you will lose all this software as you'll have no way of reinstalling it.
He is basically selling this Mac with a value added of having all this high end software installed.
Most end user agreements do not allow this so he is, basically, giving you pirated software.
It's a great gesture, but if you do not take extra precaution to back up all your data and software to either disc or another external drive/s, you run the risk of losing all of this software forever.
If you buy this, plan on buying one or two external drives to use a backup drive for everything on the Mac's internal drive/s.

Proper Credit in Independent Film

I know that this question isn't specifically about FCP - but I wanted feedback from other Editors and this seemed to be the best place to do it. I have a question about proper credits on an independent film I've been working on.
The movie was shot about eight years ago and then shelved. At that time the original editor pieced together a rough cut and then loss interest in the project. The Writer/Director/Producer on the film has done some editing on the film both originally and since I came onto the project but in all cases I had to go in and clean up what he had done, make a few tweaks, etc. Right now all three of us are listed as Editors in the credits. I'm not trying to be greedy but I've put A LOT of time in on this project (MUCH more than the original Editor) and if what the other two have done would technically, and more appropriately, fall under the credit of Assistant Editor I would like to know. Or if there is some other credit that would be fine as well.
Thanks!
Matt

I'll add what I said to the question that you tagged onto the end of another thread...
If you capture footage, organize it. Maybe just do a simple stringout of narration and soundbytes (that is in a doc world)...then outputs, export EDLs and XMLS and interface between the audio post house and effects house and online house, and do all the TECHNICAL things... Then you are an assistant editor.
If you make any creative editing decisions...regardless if they are cleaned up or changed by someone else later...you are an editor. Even doing the rough cut. That is an EDITOR duty. They should get editor credit, but not necessarily shared credit at the front of the show.
If you tried to tell the director/producer/writer that what they did is "assistant stuff," and that you did all the work and should get headline editing credit, I'd be surprised if you received ANY credit. My initial read of this situation would be that you and the director receive shared credit in the front of the film, and that the original editor who did only the rough cut might recieve ADDITIONAL EDITING in the end credits. BUT, credit placement is highly political, so this might not be the case.
And it is entirely up to the producer if you will even RECEIVE credit. Again, this is political.
For example. I was the Apprentice Editor on U-TURN (Oliver Stone film). But when the movie came out, I didn't receive an on screen credit. Yeah, it hurt...it hurt a lot. But contractually they didn't have to give me a credit. They don't have to give most people credit, only heads of departments really. But they are nice. Also, when I worked on that film there were two editors and one associate editor. By the time the movie came out, the Associate editor moved up to EDITOR, and one of the editors working on the rough cut left the show and moved to Seattle. So he received ADDITIONAL EDITING credit in the end credits.
Shane

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