Worth updating to Leopard??

I have been running 10.2 on my G4 PB since I bought it in Autumn 2003. Is it worth me shelling out for the new OS? I use iphoto, firefox and occasionally itunes - don't do much else. However i do find that since I have had my PB it has frozen on a regular basis for no apparent reason - not due to full HD as at various times I have cleared it out, no due to no of apps running as sometimes I have only 1 app open. I have also upgrated the RAM to 500MB. Nothing seems to work. I wondered whether installing a new OS would sort out the problem. Any thoughts any one?

Well with every upgrade you'll find dissatisfied users, and here is where they'll come. I for one am quite satisfied. The bugs reported here are usually just issues whereby people haven't properly prepared their system for upgrading. There are over 2 million copies of Leopard floating around already and only a few thousand complaints. The complaint rate is not even 1%. You are making a mountain out of a molehill. If you want help to solve your problem please start a new topic here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1225&start=0
I see you haven't started one new thread, except for the July iPhone thread, and are only replying to others. Maybe if you got some individual attention to your problem you'll be able to get it resolved and happily running Leopard.
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