Will Final Cut Studio port from Tiger to Leopard

I recently migrated to a new Mac w/*Leopard (10.5.4)*. I used Migration Assistant to port all my files and applications, including *Final Cut Studio*. Final Cut Pro works fine, as does Live Type.
I cannot submit batches to *Compressor (2.0.1)*. This is a known problem, with a solution posted by Apple Support (reinstalling Compressor and Qmaster and updating both to 2.0.1. I've done that and also fixed all disk permissions. That having failed, I completely reinstalled FCS and performed all updates -- same result.
Apple has a support article (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307134), which states "+Compressor/Apple Qmaster versions 2.3 and earlier and version 3.0 are not supported on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard+."
Since +there is no upgrade+ beyond 2.0.1 for Final Cut Studio (as opposed to FCS 2), is this a "back-door" way of "warning" folks that you cannot migrate FCS to Leopard without upgrading (for $499) to FCS2? I'd like to know before I shell out $499; I'd be really upset if I bought the upgrade and it still wouldn't work!!!

Thanks for the vote for FCS2, though I wouldn't have made the computer purchase if I'd known I would have to buy the FCS upgrade at the same time. I hear you about migration assistant.

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