Transferring a hard drive from one imac to another

I have an iMac G5 1.8GHz (2gb RAM) bought new in 2004. I updated the hard drive last year from 80GB to 1TB (Hitachi serial ATA)
I have over 500GB of data on this disc.
I have now bought the following from a friend:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.29f1
Serial Number (system): YM8362M1ZE3
This is an early 2008 imac and is still in warranty till January 2010. The hard drive in this machine is 320GB.
My question is: If I take the hard drive out of my old iMac and take it (and my new iMac) to a genius centre, would they swap the drives for me? and would this void the warranty?
I would like, if possible, to take out an Applecare extended warranty on it.
Thanks for any help given
Cris

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