What's my motivation to upgrade from 10.4.7 to 10.5?

We have two XSERVES running as file servers and font servers. They're both currently running 10.4.7, as 10.4.8 introduced a slew of problems. We are on an Active Directory-structured network, not OD. We just got our maint upgrade of 10.5 Server. However, I'm not sure when/if we're going to migrate. All of the bells and whistles added (wiki, iChat, mail, etc.) won't be used by us.
Network performance is decent, but could be a lot better. I so far have no success in doing link-aggregation with our HP switches... We occasionally have issues with having to un-bind and re-bind to our AD domain because of authentication issues. That's about it.
So, what's my motivation to undertake this major upgrade?

I did 2 ccc's of my server on 10.4.10 before doing anything.
The one i updated was not functioning correctly, but the second time i did a clean install and i rebuilded all services 1 by 1. It took me a while but the result was not comparable with the upgrade.
i really recommand doing a clean install instead of an upgrade. Maybe if you have less services running on your server than i had, the process would have been different. But im sure a lot of pplz will agree with me regarding the clean install compared with an upgrade.
Before doing anything, CCC's your drive and test them before touching the original drive!
Yannick

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