Importing Address Book & ical details from old Mac

I have just invested in a new Macbook to replace my deceased G3 ibook.
I tried to use Migration Assistant to get all my data across but it told me there was no OS on the old Mac! Fortunately I could still access the old hard drive and have successfully transferred all my music, photos, movies and a few vital apps.
However, I was looking around my old hard drive and I couldnt find the ical or Address Book data, nor where I should move it to on my new system.
Can anyone point me in the right irection?
Many thanks.
G3 ibook is dead, long live the 2.16GHz Macbook White! Mac OS X (10.4)
G3 ibook Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Address Book stores the settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist and the data in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/. I believe it’s similar in the case of iCal.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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