Upgrading my old emac

Hi, I have a rather old emac which I bought during 2004. The spec is:
Proc: 1ghz powerpc G4
Mem: 1gb SDRAM
OS: 10.5.8
HD: approx 80gb
This old mac does not have wireless facility and, therefore, is not connected to the internet.
I am wanting to completely reinstall the system and it won't now recognise the disks that were supplied.
I did upgrade the OS but am unable to find any disks.
What I want to do and this is what I am asking all you lovely people is:
How can I reinstall the system
What's the best OS that I should use (I am hoping to use this for design work - Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign eventually)
What's the most economical way to get this old thing wirelessly connected to my broadband?
I am extremely short of cash at the moment so looking to do this as moneysaving as possible.
On the back of this I am hoping to upgrade the OS of my lovely faithful macbook from 10.5.8 to hopefully lion.
Any ideas would be gratefully taken on board!
Kind regards
Terri

Although it is possible to run 10.5 on a G4, from personal experience i'd say it's better to stay on 10.4 for speed, especially with those specs. Take a look at the applications (and their version) that you intend to run on the machine for compatibility when deciding which of these systems to install, as there are quite alot of apps that left 10.4 support behind.
What versions are the install disks that you have at hand? If they are machine specific and not booting there are other ways to use them.
The most economical way to get wireless working is to find a compatible USB WiFi dongle, there are more and more these days that officially support OS X, but you need to double check it supports the system version you are installing. Also it's better to get one that can plug n' play (so that it uses Apple's own kexts) 3rd party kexts introduce the possibility for system instability, especially for hardware. Dongles with a broadcom chipset used to be the most compatible in 10.4 but google is your fiend here when deciding what to buy.

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