G4 Mac Mini as a HTPC

I pulled my old G4 Mac Mini out of retirement to use as a Home Theater PC (HTPC). Should this really be a Home Theater Mac (HTMac). Oh well, these are some random notes I have to pass on to anyone else that is trying this.

• Use the VGA adapter. DVI to HDMI is broken on the Mini. You will not be able to view the full screen using DVI-HDMI.
• Get at least a 5400rpm hard drive. The 4200 included on my Mini was too slow. You may want to try an external firewire drive.
• Forget USB WIFI. I could not find one that worked reliably. I'm using a Netgear WGT614 V7 wireless router in client mode as a Wireless to Ethernet bridge.
• Use a RF keyboard or VNC client to control the HTMac. I tried to use the ATI remote wonder but it just doen't have the required functionality and I could not make it 100% compatible with Front Row (escape key couldn't be mapped).
• Use Front Row and not one of the 3rd party Front Row replacenemts. I tried them all and went back to 10.5 Front Row.