Can not migrate user to new machine

I'm trying to transfer a user from a g4 400 laptop to a new ibook.
When i get to the migration assistant and connect the laptop via firewire here's what happens:
i get a spinning ball.
at first it would see the disk and attempt to list the info and it looked like it hung at the application list.
i ran every disk checking app i had on the laptop and now it wont even get to the migration check list!
i've just cloned the disk and mounted it to an external drive via the resotre feature in disk utility. the restore has not completed.
in the mean time any help is appreciated

I was able to copy the whole Time Machine folder over to an external hard drive. It still wasn't showing up when I tried the Migration Assistant. After reading Pondini's article: http://pondini.org/TM/18.html, I realized I was copying it wrong, but I did not have an extra drive on hand to reformat, etc. By chance I opened the Time Machine folder and mounted the sparse image and then tried the Migration Assistant and it magically appeared and worked flawlessly. Hope this helps someone else.

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