Swapping HD from G5 to Mac Pro

Just bought a refurb 2.8 8-core and I want to know if I can just swap out the hard drive from the G5 to the Pro with all the data on it, instead of having to transfer the files.
On a related note, I'm going to reinstall most of the software, but programs like shareware that I've paid for and Entourage which has my settings and all my old e-mails - can I simply transfer them on initial setup of the Pro? Or do I have to move the folder with the e-mails over to the Pro and then reinstall Office 2004?
I'm mostly concerned about my old e-mails and smaller software programs that I paid for and don't want to have to pay for the keys again. Best solutions?

Being new at this, I got confused on one step when it came to reformatting, which is this:
Once you've put your hard drive in the Mac Pro and go to Disk Utilities, you choose the Partition Tab, Since you need to change to a GUID partition table.
To do that, you need to select OPTIONS, but to bring up Options as a working button, you need to first select the number of partitions - 1 or more - under "Volume Scheme." Good luck.

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