Transferring System Statistics to a TEST environment

Can we transfer system statistics from a Production environment to a Test environment? Most documentation talk about simulating a workload in your test environment and gather system statistics in test before implementing system statistics in Production. We are on Oracle 9i (9.2.0.6) in Production - we have not gathered system statsitics in Production so far. The decision has been made to start gathering System Statistics in Production. Testing this in a test environment prior to implementation seems like a challenge - given that our load test simulation may be very very different from Production.

Is it not possible to Gather System Stats in Production into a Staging Table , export the staging table to the Test environment and then import the Stats into the data dictionary in Test? Even if the above is possible , some key questions still remain while gathering System Stats into a Staging Table in Production -

a)is performance of Production impacted while System Stats is being gathered to a staging table?
b)SQL in the SGA invalidated ? - all documents that I have read so far tell me the answer is "No"
c)Since stats are gathered into a Staging Table , I am assuming no execution plans should change until stats are imported into the data dictionary in Production .

It will be great to know if any one has run into the same issue.

should we change sql to meet ANSI 99 standards

I should say in all my years as both a Production and Development DBA I have very rarely seen my developers follow the most latest ANSI standard guide during sql development. Considering that most of us are on crunch time always with Application Development. Anyways I had the question posted to me " Shouldnt we change our sql to meet ANSI 99 compliance".

my 2 cents would be "No" - I really see the need to change the SQL if we were migrating say from Oracle to SQL Server for portability reasons. For the most bit Oracle version specific SQL development guides should be ANSI compliant and that should be enough - but then its just the way I have seen things work. Anyone run into the same issue - would be good to know.