Upgrading to Leopard and Existing Programs

Hi All,
I am currently running Mac OS X 10.4.11 and I was thinking about upgrading to Leopard. However, I want to know if some of the existing programs that I currently use would remain on my computer. In particular, I currently use VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP. Within Windows XP, I have Office 2007 which I use very heavily for school. Will these programs still remain in working order after installing Leopard.
Thanks in Advance
Anthony

these particular programs should work just fine in leopard.
in general, the following is the safest way to upgrade make a bootable clone of your current tiger system using CCCloner or Superduper. (You'll need an external drive for that). upgrade the clone to leopard and see if everything works ok. if it does, you can upgrade your main drive.

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Hi Cankman;
My suggestion would be to clone your current system disk. Test the clone to be sure you can boot from it. Then upgrade to Leopard and test Adobe for yourself. If it works for you, you finished. If not go back to the clone for the system you currently have. Hopefully by have a way back to your currently running system that should not take too much time.
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"though a bit sluggish" 512 to one gig memory is just making it. two gigs you'll be more satisfied or at minimum 1.5 gigs of memory.
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I'm having multiple problems and I hope you guys can help. Has anyone had any general reliability issues? I understand that mail often can flicker or hang up, and restarting the program can be necessary. No big deal. But since I've upgraded, it happens constantly. I run multiple accounts, from multiple providers, and they are all having trouble. So I don't feel it is my provider. I'll list a couple problems to provide some examples.
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Hi, panto74.
It looks like you're in a little bit of a spot, and you ask some good questons.
I know this doesn't directly answer your questions, but here is some food for thought.
Consider this option... upgrade your iMac by way of an external HD. By that I mean, purchase an external drive and install OS X 10.8.1 Mountain Lion on that. Then migrate your user accounts and data onto the the new drive, use System Preferences to set it as your startup drive, and use it for a while - an evaluation period, if you will.
By doing this you get to determine if 10.8 is what you expect - see how it behaves for you. And, if you don't like it, you haven't yet wiped your startup disk and can simply reselect that drive and OS as your boot and go about your day using SL. Very little muss and fuss. If worse come to worst, you haven't munged your original setup, and now you have an external HD that you can use for other purposes, such as data backup or external storage.
Another option that comes to mind... since you have already interrupted the feng shui or balance of your two machines by upgrading the MacBook... why not upgrade the MacBook to the next level? This way you still have the comfort of using SL on your iMac, and you won't have moved BOTH machines into the realm of the unknown. You can even upgrade your MacBook with an external startup hd as I described above.
As for the question of why some users have poor luck when upgrading/downgrading... the answers are about as varied as the problems are. There are so many things that can affect the process.
Of course, whatever you do, PLEASE make sure you have backed up your data before you make any move on your iMac... or MacBook, for that matter.
I hope this is helpful.

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