How to migrate iTunes and iPhone info to Lion on a clean install?

Hello everybody:
I've been using Lion for a while now, and I finally want to take the leap. My idea is to migrate from SL to Lion -now I have 2 partitions, one with Lion, one with SL-, but with a clean install, so all the garbage I have in SL will be deleted, so I can get a fresh start (with my documents and other stuff, of course). My question regards my iPhone and all the things iTunes normally backups. How can I migrate those? I want to avoid that iTunes tells me that I'm on a new computer, so it has to erase everything. Is there a way to do that? Also, what about my apps? I think those that are installed through a .pkg will not work if I move the .app from one /Applications folder to another but, what about those that are Lion-compatible and are only a .app archive? They'll work, right?
I think those are my main doubts for now. Thank you in advance for your answers!
F

You may want to use Setup Assistant - available only once at the beginning of a new install - you do not really want to use Migration Assistant. Although they are essentially the same procedure, Setup sets up your account once and transports over the settings, etc.; whereas Migration Asst comes in later after you've already established an account resulting in duplicates in accounts, folders, and messed up Permissions. I used it once.
Time Machine would be a good way - youc an get some excellent info here:
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Home.html

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