Alternative solution to MA

This is a bit of rant/question. I have purchased a new iMac 27". Current iMac 24 has some issues with permissions, fonts, and other issues related to specific programs. It was time for me to buy a new Mac anyway so I figured that I would not try to spend hours and hours and hours trying to fix these problems but rather get a new one and only import my most important programs. (Adobe CS, iTunes, Mail, iPhoto, Witch, and some others) So did some research and to my dismay Migration Assistant is an ALL or NOTHING kind of program. So either I migrate my messed up configuration or I don't and have to deal with a one by one re-installation of 15-20 programs hoping i have saved the keys for all of them along with the key files with my preferences etc. in it. So MY QUESTION is: OTHER THAN Migration Assistant, which would be useless in this situation, is there a THIRD Party software that could do this never-heard-before-incredible-feat, which is only migrate selected applications but not all? I can't believe that user-friendly customer-centric the-user-God APPLE has not figure this out! My tendency is to return my APPLE and give it a try with WINDOWS 7. I mean if I have to start from scratch mind as well try something new...no?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. --Thanks to all and sorry for the rant!!!

CS3 you may want to research more, or upgrade (eventually) to CS5.
Backups are important. A bootable clone of your system can be a life saver and created wtih SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner, Apple Disk Utility (RESTORE).
Pick up a copy of David Pogue's "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard 2nd Edition" at the library.
No different than doing a Windows type Custom Clean install. And treat MA as you would Windows Easy Transfer to backup and restore your data, email, prefs, documents and such.
Just be sure to have your iMac system drives or copies/clones of same handy. So that MA or Setup Assistant can do its thing, just with check box next to "Apps" not selected.
And maybe a list of what programs you had installed. System Profile has a list of all the installed applications and other items.
10.6.3 to 10.6.4 should not be too much trouble, though it does seem a lot of people are hoping and waiting for a fix and not 100% happy with .4 right now.
Forum and fellow iMac owners:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=189
Older review of "Mac OS X: Missing Manual"
http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/02/27/1551206.shtml

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