After The Hard Drive Swap?

Hi All
My Hard Disk swap didn’t go as smoothly as I hoped.
My attempts to clone my old drive were unsuccessful because Carbon Copy Cloner froze twice on me almost at the end of the cloning process. I gave up with CCC because cloning 60GB over 400 Mbs Firewire takes hours and hours. I subsequently learned from replies on the Bombich software forums that I could have restarted from where it left off - I'll remember that if I ever have to do it again.
I eventually managed to boot off the DVD drive. Because my disk was partially cloned, the installer thought that OS X was already on there and tried to upgrade the installation. This didn’t work, it wouldn’t boot. Eventually I realised what was going on, erased the drive first and then did a full install. I was then able to start off the new drive.
I’m just doing all the Tiger updates through Software Update. While I wait for that to complete, I have two remaining issues to resolve:
1. I now have no start up chime - although sound works. Can I fix that or is this a symptom that I’ve screwed up the repair?
2. I have my old drive in a Firewire enclosure and can read it OK. I’d like to get my users and applications off it and onto the new drive. How would you recommend I do that? I don’t know if it makes sense to selectively clone Users and Applications independently of everything else.
I’m sure all this is buried in some threads somewhere but my head is beginning to spin a bit. Hopefully you can help.
Thanks
Ian
iMac 17" Flat Panel (OS X 10.4.7)

Hi Swissfondue
Thanks for responding. I started to use it before I got your post!
I was going to reply after it completed to say if it was successful or not. I didn't see Migration Assistant referred to on the other threads about this issue that I've seen. In fact one or two specifically advise against trying to move users from one drive to another but maybe they were written before MA was available.
My machine is going much faster with these upgrades Don't know whether to attribute it to the extra RAM or the new disk.

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