Having troubles every step of the way on new iMac setup

Old setup...
17" Powerbook, registered my iTunes on here, all media is on 2 TB external hard drive, all photos reside on Powerbook hard drive.
That's all I really care about transferring.
I got the iMac today and it walked me through a system where I hooked up a firewire between the two, but felt like I wasn't doing it right, so stopped. My fear is my iTunes will implode or something. I have two AppleTv's and two iPhones, so I can't afford to screw this up.
Want the iMac to control the iTunes, but still want all media on the external hard drive. I want the iMac hard drive to have all of the photos for iPhoto.
At some point I was asked for a password that I never remember setting. So I couldn't authenticate. I put original install disk in, set up a password and now when I reboot it comes up with a screen asking for a password and I enter it, and it indicates it's wrong.
Wow, I'm shocked it's this difficult! I think I screwed things up when I stopped the migration process with the old PowerBook. How do I get back on track?

At some point I was asked for a password that I never remember setting. So I couldn't authenticate. I put original install disk in, set up a password and now when I reboot it comes up with a screen asking for a password and I enter it, and it indicates it's wrong.
I'm not sure what the consequences of stopping Migration Assistant in midstream. It has a few options on what to transfer. What did you ask it to do?
Did you set up a new user on the iMac, or did MA start before you did that? If it did, it should be asking for the password from your username on the Powerbook as that was the account it was trying to migrate.
If you set up your new iMac with a different username and password, it was probably asking for the password for the user you were migrating from on the powerbook.
Does it log in and then ask for the password you can't remember or is it the log in password?
I can't remember all of the options and messages MA has when you migrate a fresh system, so I really need more details on each step to really figure out what went wrong.

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