How do I transfer my apps from an external drive to my new iMac?

I just purchased a new iMac and am currently in the process of getting everything set up. My previous Mac was a powerbook, so there are many changes that I will be getting used to in the near future.
My primary concern at the moment is getting my apps into my new iMac iTunes library. I have all my music, apps, podcasts, etc. saved on an external drive which I plugged into my new iMac. To import the music into iTunes. I selected File > Add to Library > then selected the external drive with my iTunes folder & imported the enitre folder (which was 163.57 GB). Everything, including my music, movies, podcasts, books, & TV shows transfered over just fine with the exception of my apps. After researching the issue, I discovered the iTunes was saving all the apps on my powerbook instead of the external drive in a folder titled Mobile Applications. I then transfered the folder from my powerbook to the external drive and followed the steps above to try and import my apps into my new iMac library. But have had no luck. Each app comes up with the following message when I try to add it to the iMac library:
The app "[adult swim]" could not be added to your library because an error occured. An unknown error occurred (-50).
This is as far as I have been able to get. I am ensured that my new iMac Itunes account is authorized for that computer & have synced my iPhone once, which updated iCal, but no apps.
Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I tried to use the Mac Migrate program but did not seem to have any luck. It took almost 12 hours to run over wifi and hung up at the very end. Also, I do not see any evidance of any files being added.
Thanks.
Jeff / Texas

Migration didn't work for me on the music side of things either. What did work however was transferring the entire iTunes folder over to my new computer. Everything switched then, and it was just like iTunes on my old mac. Maybe if you can find the library files in there or something and transfer them over.

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