Cold and dead in the mountains

So i spent a lot of money on this imac 24" 2.93ghz. And it's not performing aswell as my 7year old powerbook!!!
First of all i used migration assistant to import all my user files > about 50gb of songs, photos, movies etc. This ended up taking nearly 2 DAYS to complete (granted i had to use a wireless connection rather than a firewire), and then, after all that waiting, the storage space was taken up on my new imac, but no files!! Anywhere!
So i've been importing everything manually.
Next I want to sort out my iTunes playlist, so import all my music. I have plenty of duplicates because the music came from different harddrives, so i clicked show duplicates. Then I deleted those duplicates. But they Weren't duplicates!! They were any music files that had duplicates, including the original!!!
I realised this after deleting them to trash. So next, i moved them back to desktop. This really ****** with the imac's head. It froze for a while and then they appeared, and i moved them, in sections, back into itunes.
So now i need to get rid of the duplicates (about 4-5000) maually. Yey!!
On top of this, since putting all this music on here and having multiple files in the source file, desktop, itunes media file etc the imac has been lazier, slower and more unresponsive than my old dell 9gb pc. I just dished out £1500 for this.
And th elittle black mouse mat they send with it? Im very unhappy.
Can anyone help or relate to any of this? any comments (including 'you're a bit of an idiot, it's not the mac's fault etc') are very welcome.
One unhappy and penniless customer

is there any way you can re-migrate using a firewire connection? I suspect that this may be at the root of the problem given that I've done several similar migrations using firewire with no problems at all. I suspect that the new computer is not running well because it's got a huge mess of confusion it's trying to deal with. I would just start over rather than trying to sort this out by hand.

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