Samsung SH-S182M (Lightscribe DVD Burner) - Will it work in a G5 DP 2.0GHz?

I found this drive on sale at Frys this weekend for 49 bucks. All the sales reps just read the box and saw no mention of Mac OS X and said, it won't work even though I told them I regularly use Pioneer ones that say nothing about macs but work fine.
Does anyone know if this drive will work in a G5? Do you need special software to do the "lightscribe" part? CAn you even do that on a mac? Is it even worth getting a lightscribe disc? I like the idea of burning the image on the disk...love the way it looks....

Here is some info that you may find useful:
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso
Select "DVD+R/RW + DVD-R/RW"
Select "Samsung"
and "Search"
There are others using the Samsung Lightscribe drives.

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