Upgrading from Tiger to SL or ML

Hello all! 
I have an old aluminium body MBP 17" Intel Core2Duo 2.4 GHZ with 2 GB of Ram.
It has a 160 GB drive and is a 3,1 model bought around august / sept. 2007.
Call me slow but I haven't upgraded my OS since I bought the machine. I'm still running Tiger (10.4.11) and since I'm going to upgrade my RAM to 4 GB and
harddrive (to 540 GB), I figured I'm also going to upgrade my OS. 
As you can imagine having a machine this old, there's a lot of stuff on it I'd hate to loose. So I've
deviced a plan for upgrading my MBP.
It goes like this:
1. Back up my internal drive with Carbon Copy Cloner.
2. Install Snow Leopard on an external drive.
3. Replace the internal drive with the external one.
4. Put the old internal drive into the harddrive dock.
5. Migrate all my files from the now external drive to the new internal one.
Question is, will this work? Is it a fail proof way of doing it?
(The reason I'm upgrading to SL and not Lion is because Mountain Lion is coming out and I'm just going to install that on top of SL instead of going via Lion).
Thanks!

Hi!
Just wanted to say I've successfully upgraded from Tiger (10.4.11) to Mountain Lion (10.8) without problems!
So here's what I did: first I backed up my entire system using Carbon Copy. I did this on two different external drives (you can never be safe enough!). Made sure both booted nicely. Then I downloaded Mountain Lion and installed it onto an external drive 2.5" drive. I booted up to ML and it worked OK. I then swapped the external 2.5" drive with ML on it for my old Tiger 2.5" drive (this took some time but Ifixit had a great "how-to" guide.
Now I'm in the process of copying important files, documents and music while also having to re-download a lot of my old software (since none of them work properly in Mountain Lion). Oh well, that's the price to pay for not upgrading sooner!
Btw - maybe it's the wrong thread to ask in but I had a lot of stickies in Tiger (which I used everyday almost) - and I tried to copy the stickiesdatabase file over to ML but none of my Stickies show up?? I know ML wants us to use Notes instead of Stickies but since Stickies DO come with Mountain Lion, I wonder why I can't find the Stickiesdatabase file in Mountain Lion??
P.S - Have no idea why my username on this forum changed. Oh well.

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