It should be OK, the sound system should have switched in those years from a sound bar to pods, but the general design should be the same.
Yes.
Yes that should work
yes
Yes
Yes.
No.
yes, all tops from 1997 to 2006 are the same design, with exception to the extended wheelbase models offered from 2004-2006.
As long as you have had a soft top on before and have the door surrounds it will fit right on they are both Jeep wrangler TJ. The soft tops are the same from 1997 to 2006.
Yes
Being both are TJ's it should, I believe.
no.
No.