Installing ML on New Drive: TM, Clone, Setup or Migration Assistant?

I'm about to intall a new SSD in my late 2008 MacBook 2.4, 4 GB, which is already running ML. The computer originally came with Leopard installed and I personalized it with Migration Assistant, transferring some apps as old as Panther or older. I've directly installed all other OS upgrades on top of this initial transfer.
The litter from the older apps did not get in the way until I upgraded to Lion, eversince I have been getting console errors for all kinds of deleted apps.
In installing ML on the new SSD which method (TM, Clone, Setup or Migration Assistant) would allow me to transfer maximum personalization with minimum litter from defunct apps?

Just to be clear, if I'm getting an error like this:
PluginProcess[3299]: Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio:  dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHD Audio, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:
          /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAu dio: mach-o, but wrong architecture
ostensibly caused by FinalCut Pro, will Migration Assistant then realize that FinalCut is not on the new disk and not transfer that section of the library?

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