Clone old Macintosh HD to New Macintosh HD with Disk Utility?

I've just replaced the 160GB HD in my MBP with a larger faster drive.
Is it possible to essentially clone my old 160 (now connected via USB) to my newly installed and formatted Macintosh HD via disk utility or some other utility available on the Leopard Install disk?
I tried using Time Machine. I've been backing up the entire system all year, but when I tried to restore from Time Machine, it:
a) took 32 hours to complete the restore.
b) only restored the entire system as it stood on December 30th! Everything I've been backing up since then is not only not on the new drive, but no longer available on Time Machine.
Fortunately, my old Macintosh HD is completely accessible.

Worked like a charm! Thanks all.
For the record:
TIME MACHINE RESTORE:
32 hours - restored system to current state of initial back up when I first used Time Machine
CARBON COPY CLONER:
2 hours - Cloned 96GB of previous Macintosh HD onto newly installed disk. Couldn't have been easier. The interface for CCC is very straight forward and intuitive.
If I were to do this again, I'd forget about Time Machine for a system restore and use CCC to clone the drive before I installed it.

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