Hey thomllama, look on the Apple store, and down at the bottom left there's a link for "special deals". There are a couple of refurbished Power Mac G5s floating around. I almost got one, but i went with a dual 1ghz powermac g4 with 1gig ram, superdrive, the gforce 4 titanium and an 80 gig drive on ebay for 1400 on ebay. i know the dual 1.25 g4 is only a couple of hundred more, but the superdrive, and the gig of ram is what attracted me.
The reason i went with this was based on GabrielKs results. Its faster than my Athalon, and that's what i was looking for. When the dust settles, and any kinks get ironed out, Ill probably snag a g5 later on this year.