Upgrading Single Processor MDD to Superdrive

A friend of mine wants to transfer the Superdrive from his dead dual processor MDD over into his still-kicking single processor 1.25 MDD which just has the combo drive. Does anyone know any conflicts, mechanical or system, which would prevent him from doing so?
Also, he would like to make the same transfer with the Nvidia GeoforceTi card, moving it from the DP MDD to the SP MDD to replace the (I think) Radeon card that it currently has. Any problem with either of these switch-outs?
Thanks!

Hi, Stephen -
The swap of the Superdrive should be straight forward, plug and play.
The video card would seem to be okay, also - the three model series of the G4 (MDD) machines {the original, the FW800, and the 2003 ones} all had the GeForce4 Ti as a standard (extra cost) option.

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