Best way to migrate data & apps (if possible) to new Retina

My pal just dropped off his new Retina MBP and his old 2008 MBP, and he wants me to migrate his old to new. What's the best way to do that? I know I can clone the machine using CCC, but thinking why take his fresh install and put 4 years of crud on the new box. But on the other hand, I don't know where all his data is, and he is not sure either. I have a TM & clone of the old drive to work with, so what would you do?
thx!

Well, the shortname is not interfering, just my pal requested the change. I don't think he wants his real name there, or something like that. The ehow article is just a rehash of https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3872, and does not work if you have a space in the shortname.
Step 4: Rename your "Home" folder. Your new short name should be all letters in lowercase with no spaces.
That dunna work. OSX will create a copy of the folder and leave the old one - apparently you can not rename the folder with a space in the name, even logged in as root. I could try then deleting the old one with the space, but that's sure to jack things up (my guess).

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