How Do I Clone My Hard Drive To An SSD and then Install It?

So This is what I'm Trying to do:
My goal is to get a SSD (Solid State Drive) and Use that to boot up My Macbook Pro, 15-inch, 2.2 Ghz quad core i7, Late 2011 Model.
The SSD Im Looking at is this one http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/YSSD6E060/ with this package.
Steps I Plan On:
1. Put all the files i dont want on the SSD on an External Hard drive and reduce what i have on my current hard drive to 40Gb
2. Remove the current hard drive and place it in the case with the USB 2.0 Connection
3. Use that Hard Drive (My 500Gb Internal Hard Drive) To Boot Up The Macbook Pro
4. Use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) (http://www.bombich.com/) to Clone the Entire 40Gbs that are on the 500gb hard drive to the 60GB SSD
5. Erase the Old HD That's Currently In My Laptop.
6. Use the old HD as An external Hard Drive
7. Transfer all my files (Movies music and such) from my backup to the now external Hard drive
8. Link the folders to the new destinations
My Question is, will this work? If it will, tell me, if it wont, tell me and, More importantly, Let me know how to change my instructions. Any help, tips, and tricks would be appriciated and, If it is relevant, I will award points!
Thanks,
Simmm

Mac Performance Guide DigiLLoyd wrote a blog about his experience moving to a Boot Drive using an External FireWire. He said that having any boot drive was so superior he would never go back. (Since he is a raving proponent of SSD drives, I was looking for a white paper on Boot drives on SSD, and was very surprised that I did not find it there.)
This leaves me with the impression that the biggest speedup is ANY Boot Drive, and that putting the boot drive onto an SSD gives incremental, but not revolutionary, improvement for your work.
This is a real dilemma with a MacBook when you only have space for ONE Internal drive.
The real-world performance of an SSD could occasionally exceed to the limits of a 3G drive. But in my opinion, it will not seriously impinge on the performance. Your interface is probably limited to a 3G transfer rate anyway, so the 6G would be wasted.

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