Best way to move the aperture library to a new machine?

Hi Folks,
This must be an FAQ I just can't find it.
I've just got a new machine and want to move Aperture to it. I have backed up the vault to an external drive. I 'think' you would restore the library from that. Any advice from those who've done this already, would be much appreciated.
Mac Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   Quad-Core Intel Xeon 4GB memory

What it won't do is copy across your preferences, presets and keyword lists...
Preferences - copy 'your home folder'/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist to the same place on the new computer.
Presets and keywords lists etc. - copy the entire 'your home folder'/Library/Application Support/Aperture folder across.
If you used Migration Assistant these have probably been copied across already.
Ian

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