How to restore a user home account to a new hard drive

I had a hard drive go out and before it did, I have a copy of my user directory on a firewire drive. I got a new hd and am ready to move the back up over to the new drive.
Is there any steps I should follow to do such? Will a simple copy of the total user account over to the new drive work ok if I create the exact name of the backup home directory to the new drive and say "replace"? I want to make sure my mail, docs and music directories are correct. I have the apps backed up but can reinstall them if need be and not to mes with the libraries.
Thanks
jf

Boot the machine with your install disk, select your language, and, when the menu bar pops up, select Utilities/Disk Utility, select the new HD, select erase and format/partition (as desired) Mac OS Extended and install OS 9 drivers if the machine supports OS 9 booting (not shown in your configuration information), under security options select zero out data. Once the drive is formatted, install Tiger. After the machine restarts, go through the welcome dialogs and use the same name, shortname, and password you used originally. After that finishes, simply mount the FWHD and you should be able to just drag and drop everything from the backed up users folder to the new one. Don't drag the users folder, just the subfolders.
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