I think it’s wise to leave it at Tiger, especially if you’re more familiar with that and will do tech support.
If you give him an administrator account, then the best thing you can do is to get an external HD with Firewire and set up a complete (incremental) backup schedule with Carbon Copy Cloner. Or maybe two: one daily and one weekly, to different partitions. You’re doing the right thing in giving him a Mac. Macs are more orderly, which makes him think/work more orderly -- a little bit, anyway. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list