Simple Hard Drive Compatability advice please

Hi
Having a few problems in my mac not recognising my current hard drive at all, and some of my more techy friends suggest that has completely and irrecoverably died.
Just want to check with those of you that know more about this than me that a
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250gb 16mb serial ATA II
http://www.stuff-uk.net/?s=ST-ST3250620AS
will work just lovely in my iMac g4 1ghz 17". Just wondering if there are any compatability issues with the 1ghz machine to any other of the Imac G4 series I've seen posted about on here.
Any sugestions for a superior drive of equal cost?
Anyone know if my current one can be brought back to useful life if even OSX reinstallation can't find the drive to install on?
Thanks

Following on from this, I fitted my new hard drive (samsung 250gb) and got to the 'select destination' part of OSX installation, but could not locate it as an installation destination.
I can see the hard drive in system profiler so know it is connected correctly and works, but I am obivously missing a trick in formatting it or something.
What can I do to get my new hard drive to be recognised for software installation? I don't remember being able to access any of the functions of disk repairer to be able to do anything to the drive.
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