Getting a new macbook, help

ok i just got this macbook a little over a year ago but now my mom wants one and i persuaded her to take mine and give me the new one haha. but now i have to move EVERYTHING from this computer to my new one. i have a feeling this is going to be a pain. right now i have a .mac subscription on this macbook that runs my moms website, which is the main reason she wants this one so we dont have to transfer anything. but i also have my iphone set up on this macbook. i need to know how to:
-move all my songs from this macbook to the new one (is there some kind of reverse sync so i can put the songs on my iphone onto my new macbook)
-i need to know how to get all my mail sent to my new macbook and now my old one
-cancel all the syncing of contacts, bookmarks, etc. from this macbook and set it up to the new one. if i think of anything else i will edit this post. basically i want 2 give my mom a macbook with nothing on it and be able to get myself back to normal on my new one.
thanx everyone

Just connect them with a FireWire cable and use FireWire target disk mode and Migration Assistant to move the files over to the new computer.
Then, use the system discs that came with the old computer to perform an Erase & Install and hand the computer off to her.

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