Can I use a TM backup and Migration Assistant to "merge" two machines?

Question

Here's the situation:
I have a TM backup of an iMac which is being recycled to another use. This iMac has a couple of user accounts, and applications, including VMWare and XP pro.
I have a MacBook pro, which has user accounts and applications (It's been in use for a couple of months.)
What is the best way to transfer all of the iMac "stuff" (user files and applications -- have I left anything out?) to the MBP?
Migration Assistant looks like it might be the right tool -- is it? Or should I do it another way?
I'm worried that the user account on the iMac and the MBP might have the name username and/or the same numeric userID. Does it matter? If it does, what's the easiest way to check the userID?

Answer 1

Ok, I wasn't clear enough...
The iMac has user1 & user2 as user accounts, and MSOffice, VMWare and XPpro as applications
The macbook has userA as a user account, and the usual suspects in Applications.
What I would like to end up with is either user1 and userA as two separate accounts on the macbook, or (better) all of the user1's user directory copied into a subdirectory on userA's account properly owned by userA. (I don't care one way or another about user2). And I need the Applications out of the iMac's Applications folder to end up in the macbook's Application's folder. (I can come up with install disks for MSOffice, VMWare and XPpro if that's easier, too.)
Any advice on how to do this would be gratefully received!
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