Upgrade to 10.6 plus run Parallels for Windows 7

I am running 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro a 500 GB hard drive and 4 MB ram.
I would like to:
1. upgrade to MAC 10.6 Snow Leopard
2. Run Windows 7 using Parallels
I am fairly computer literate but I have no experience with virtual machines.
Can anyone recommend a good site where I can learn more about this?
Is there anything I need to do in order to prepare the hard drive to run dual operating systems?
What is the sequence of actions that should be taken to accomplish these two end results?
Thanks
Claire

Hello!
The first thing I would do is the Snow leopard Upgrade. You can purchase the 10.6 disk from the apple store. Make sure you backup your computer before doing this. You never know what surprises can come about.
Dowload the combo back update to 10.6.3 instead of using the update tool. That seemed to work much better for me. The combo updater can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1017
Make sure you are running the latest version of bootcamp. I loaded Windows 7 Pro 64 bit with no problems. It was a smooth installation.
Parallels is great for running the machine within mac. The latest version supports 7 and it works great. You may consider bootcamp if you want 100 % power to windows applications.

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