Will a "harvested" DVD drive work?

A very serious accident had befallen my 15in Titanium PowerBook G4 the other day. Unfortunately, the accident was fatal. Seriously damaged motherboard and TFT display. Repair costs approach the cost of a new 12" Powerbook, so funeral services are scheduled for next week, and delivery of a new 12" Powerbook is scheduled about the same time.
Fortunately, the old PowerBook had agreed to be an organ donor, so I am harvesting a number of items from it -- hard drive, 802.11b card, DVD drive, and memory. The hard drive was transplanted into an external USB 2.5in hard drive enclosure. The 802.11b card went into my older PowerMac (an M8705LL/A).
I am wondering about the memory and DVD drive, though. I have a 12" iBook G4 about two years old or so, pretty much bottom of the line, that has a CD-RW and (had been upgraded to) 640MB RAM.
Could the OEM 128MB be replaced with the 512MB from the Powerbook (assuming that the Powerbook's 512MB memory didn't get fried), upgrading the machine from 640MB to 1GB? Seems I remember reading about a memory limitation on that particular vintage of iBooks, but don't remember where I saw it or what it said about max RAM.
Could the CD-RW be replaced with the DVD drive? And would rerunning OS10.4.3 combo updater be all that would be required to install the proper DVD drivers on the iBook?
Thanx in advance for any guidance that anyone can provide.
12" iBook Mac OS X (10.4.3)
2001 Quicksilver G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
2001 Quicksilver G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
2001 Quicksilver G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

The RAM from the PowerBook won't work in an iBook G4; those two machines take different RAM types, which have a different number of pins. The slots on one machine won't accomodate RAM designed for the other machine.
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