Tiger upgrade and compatibility question

PowerBook 17" 1.5ghz 1GB RAM Osx 10.3.9
I am thinking of upgrading from Panther to Tiger but want to know if some of my software will still work. I have the following software that I am concerned about:
InDesign 2.02
Illustrator 10
Photoshop 7
QuarkXpress 6
Macromedia MX suite
Microsoft Office X:mac
Any feedback appreciated, thanks.

All of those programs will work fine with Tiger on your hardware.

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