Backup Time - MacBook Pro Coming Soon!

I'm filled with joy just writing this but my Dad told me today that because of my choices in school etc etc. He has decided to give me £1500 for a new Keyboard (Yamaha PSR3000 @ £850) and a MacBook Pro - i've already got about £850 saved. So... i've sold my iBook and i'm going all out on this MacBook!
I need to know the best way to backup all my stuff on the iBook and then (eventually) put it on the MBP. I dont have an external FW drive but I do have 50GB of free space on my Dads PowerMac G4, 50GB's is pleanty of room for my stuff.
I dont want to simply "clone" my HD because when I get my MacBook Pro I want to install everything again from scratch and have a compleatly new system. However my iTunes library is knocking on 20GB alone!
Opinions please?
Thanks, Joe.

When you get your new MacBook Pro.
Fire up your iBook into Firewire Target Disk Mode.
How to use FireWire target disk mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
It will now act as a firewire drive to your MacBook Pro and you can copy over the files how you want to.
Of course if you are selling do it once with the PowerMac and then again with the PowerMac when the MacBook Pro arrives.
(or the other way around).
You don't need to use the Migration Assistant), but you might want to as it can make life easier and you can configure it how you want to). However I guess this won't be possible as you would have sold the iBook before you get the MacBook Pro!

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