Trying to clean install Mavericks onto OSX 10.5.8

I am trying to clean insall an old 2008 MacBook Pro that has OSX 10.5.8 currently installed. I made a mavericks usb installer with another updated MacBook Pro. The clean install was sucessful with the other Mac, but that one was already running Mavericks before I clean installed. Just wondering if my thinkning is correct that I can back up the OSX 10.5.8 Mac using timemachine and then clean install mavericks after. Please just confirm that this can be done.

you need at least 10.6.8 to install Mavericks as an upgrade.
A clean install would be doable if you meet all the req.
To install Mavericks, you need one of these Macs:
iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),
MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009)
Your Mac also needs:
OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed
2 GB or more of memory
8 GB or more of available space

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              MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
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    Video Information:
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                        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499.25 GB (480.26 GB free)
                        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
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              iMac - model: iMac8,1
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                        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 319.21 GB (132.66 GB free)
                        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
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                        Time Machine Backups (disk1s2) /Volumes/Time Machine Backups: 999.86 GB (506.27 GB free)
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                        Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
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    If I do the clean install, will Mavericks ask me if I want to transfer my data files, settings, mail, prefs, etc. from the working 10.6.8, and will I be able to point it to that system to find and transfer?  Or will I be faced with manually finding and moving all that stuff?
    What about the apps?  Same story?
    What about the PowerPC and Classic [yes, I still have some sitting there] apps?  Will Mavericks ignore them rather than move them?
    Several posts suggested using an external HD instead of a new partition for doing something like this.  I don't understand why.
    Many thanks in advance.

    Clean install = YES!  Installing Mavericks over your Snow Leopard environment will destroy it!
    Classic apps - how are you running them now?  The Classic Environment was eliminated when OS X Tiger 10.4 moved to Intel.
    Here are some thoughts about running Classic apps on an Intel Mac, that I previously assembled:
    With the newer Intel Macs, you have to run a Classic emulator such as SheepShaver, which requires you to extract the Mac ROMs from your older Classic Mac and then install Mac OS 9.
    A related program is Chubby Bunny, which comes bundled with all of that included.
    More information on SheepShaver:
    http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup
    and
    http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/mac-os-9-classic-support-faq/run-macos-9-on- intel-macs.html
    and more information about Chubby Bunny:
    http://www.macwindows.com/OS9_on_Intel_Mac.html#092408b
    and
    http://hackthemac.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/chubby-bunny-old-virtual-machine.html
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