How should I upgrade

I upgraded computers to this one in my profile over a month ago and sent in my upgrade paperwork hoping to get snow leopard on release, well it is on backorder.. Anyway, I am upgrading my HD to 500GB and then I plan on using my original HD as my timemachine drive attached to our airport extreme base station..
My question is this.. Should I clean install snow leopard on the new drive and then drag apps from the original drive or just install it over my current system and then migrate to the new drive? The migration was a bit unwieldy when I did it from my G3 to this so that is why I hesitate.. Opinions?

Welcome to Apple Discussions, Greg.
Greg Iafeliece wrote:
Should I clean install snow leopard on the new drive and then drag apps from the original drive or just install it over my current system and then migrate to the new drive?
You can't "drag" your applications that just won't work!
Why don't you just do a upgrade install if you want to avoid all that?
Then do a clean install or a Time Machine restore on the (now) external drive.
-mj

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