> I have not gone to the 9800 due to everyone complaining that their G5 with a 9800
> won't even boot on 3.2 mos.

This should be cured since MorphOS 3.3:

"- Fixed a problem with AGP initialisation that could lead to severe graphics performance problems.
- Radeon 9800 chips on G5 machines now use MMIO based data transfers."
http://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes/3.3