What is best reccomended for my upgrade?

Hi all,
I have just got my first mac off a friend. It is a Dual 1.8ghz PowerPC G5 System.
It currently has 4 sticks of DDR SDRAM and a GeForce FX5200 gfx card.
As I am kind of new to upgrading macs, can anyone suggest to me what I should upgrade this system to having?
Can I put DDR2 RAM into this system? Does the RAM on this system only go upto 4GB max?
What graphics card would be best for this system in order for me to do some video editing and grpahics work?
What airport card should I get? Does it have one already in there as there is a port to attach an antenna on the back of the machine?
What version of OSX can I go upto with this machine? its currently on 10.4, I'm guessing snow leopard wont work but would 10.5.8?
Many Thanks!

Hi tetrasync, and a warm welcome to Macdom & the forums!
Can I put DDR2 RAM into this system?
Nope.
Does the RAM on this system only go upto 4GB max?
Yep.
What graphics card would be best for this system in order for me to do some video editing and graphics work?
See japamacs posts here on the best AGP cards for G5s...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10460940&#10460940
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10319750&#10319750
What airport card should I get? Does it have one already in there as there is a port to attach an antenna on the back of the machine?
It may or may not have one, At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware, click on the little disclosure triangle beside it, highlight Airport, what does it say?
If it turns out not to have one, something like these might be a better/cheaper option...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Asus/WL167G/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MXP802GU2/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MXP802NU2C/
What version of OSX can I go upto with this machine?
Yes, 10.5.x is the highest it'll ever go.

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