I work as the art director and prepress for a book publisher, we do mostly Graphic Novels and a few fantasy books. I have about 20 yrs prepress experience, I am a Photoshop semi-expert and a def. PDF expert. I have worked in traditional printing and also oversaw the re-tooling and move to electronic pre-press and a totally digital workflow.

I have experience in most forms of bookbinding and set up.

I am still putting the programs through some testing, but everything I have seen so far has shown it can be done.

My old cdr drive died and I am waiting for a new one, once that arrives I will have a more definate answer but I would say there is a 99% chance this will all work.

if I can help you please feel free to email or post a question.
I have more than likely encountered the problem.

And once again thanks to aay for the software tips, I have spent 5 hours trying to install Debian on a ppc...forget it...not gonna happen, some strange freeze happens when I am finalizing the aps database.
I think my disc 2 is corrupted because it locks up there every time.

So it's back to mandrake for now on the iMac, oh how I long for a Knoppix PPC port. A week ago Mandrake was fine, but I tried Knoppix and damn....Mandrake is like a toy now.