"Resurrecting" trusty G4

Hi all, I'm hoping you smart folks out there can give me some advice. I've decided to resurrect my old G4, which has been patiently waiting in its box for a new task since I got the G5 a couple years ago. It occurred to me that I can hook it up to my TV to do light surfing, download movies and watch online TV reruns from the comfort of my couch. So, I'm half way there now, and I need some direction.
Here are the basic specs of the machine (from System Profiler):
400MHz PowerPC G4 (AGP Graphics)
Video card: ATY, Rage 128Ps
OS 10.2.8
Internal HD is only 21Gigs (wow, and that was huge when I got this machine!)
Here's where I'm at. I've hooked up the TV to the graphics card via a DVI (on the computer) to HDMI (on the TV) connector. The TV can now function as the monitor for the computer. I suspect when I get the right connector for the sound that that will work as expected as well. I'm disappointed that the screen is fairly low resolution (it's an HDTV) and that it's all stretched out.
So here are my questions:
1. Can I update the OS to say, 10.4 or even 10.5? Will the 400MHz chip support that? By updating I think it will solve the problem of the tv screen looking all stretched out. I'm guessing I don't have the right driver and that 10.2 doesn't have it (as it only gives me three options and the highest res still looks bad).
2a. The HD is pretty full. My plan is to either wipe it out when/if I install a new OS or to at least uninstall much of the software and delete all the old work files. (I'm pretty sure I won't be needing Quark v4 anytime soon.)
2b. How much RAM should I have to comfortably run OS 10.5? (I'm sure I can find this out elsewhere, I'm just on a roll.)
3. Right now it's not connected to the internet at all. Would it be better to have it hardwired or wireless? (And if wireless, since I have my G5 hardwired, can I use the airport card from the G5?)
Thanks in advance for sharing your expertise.
--Dina
Message was edited by: Dina

sig wrote:
You cant use the airport card from the G5 which is a b/g type. Your G4 fits a b type. I would go wired in as much as a b card is hard to find inexpensively.
Thanks, Sig. Don't want to put too much money into this project. We'll probably go hardwired, just looking for an excuse to avoid the crawl space, lol. Of course, the DSL modem and wireless router are about as far from the living room as possible, and in the basement. My husband says his laptop wireless connection (windows-based machine) works only in certain parts of the house, a certain distance from the router. Seems like hard wiring is the least expensive, and the surest way to a reliable internet connection.
Thanks--d

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This is totally apparent to me now because of your having me import a totally transparent gif which was invisible over my pic, thus the freaky part I didn't like...keying the thumbnail with one thing and ending up with something totally different when brought to page.
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