Xserve Purchase: New or Refurb?

I know that Xserve is being discontinued, but we have a 5-year old G5 Dual Xserve that we have been waiting to upgrade for a while. We decided we're not really worried about the hardware being discontinued, and we'll just look at some alternate hardware when the time comes down the road.
But for now, I have to decide whether to purchase a new 4-core or a refurb 8-core. They are the same price on the Apple Store.
We have a small company (15 employees) and will use it for mail, web, ftp, file maker, and file sharing. Not a ton of traffic, and I doubt a lot of processor-heavy work.
Just looking for suggestions...
Thanks!

Kevlar,
Some people would say oh you would be fine with a mac mini server. But you have to look at the G5 and say well this xserve gave me 5 years of good service!!!
I would recommend the xserve for the hardware redundancy and the highest % uptime. I would also recommend getting the raid card option and running raid 5.
Getting a refurb is not a bad idea either as it will still carry a 1 year warranty just like a new one would.
You would be fine if you found a 2.26 quad core as it will have plenty of processing power for now and into the future.

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