Upgrading For 7 to 8 any advice

Hi Folks
I've just ordered 8 and will be driving in at the deep end, I am just looking for any advice on upgrading to help with as smooth transition as possible, I have a good number of third party plugins, UAD, Powercore, PSP, RMX, Melodyne, and many more, so would the advice be to install 8 on to the G5 and pray or would it be a case of uninstalling all the software and starting a fresh (which would be a nightmare and very time consuming) i.e start with a fresh install of Tiger and go from there or just with the install 8 and then re-install the plugins
TTFN
Subcoustic

Back up the entire drive just in case.
Install Logic 8. Logic 7 will still be there, as will your plugins, you don't need to reinstall those, they are just AU plugins that Logic 8 will see.
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