Installing old preferences on new laptop

Hi,
I'm formatting my hard drive as I'm having some problems with start up times and I want to know how I can take the settings/add-ons for Firefox, Thunderbird, iTunes, the Mac System Preferences, etc. from my current Mac with me.
I know there's a folder titled "Preferences" in the user's library, but will that take everything over? I'd also like to take add-ons and Firefox about:config changes. I intend to avoid taking any unnecessary items with me as that's part of the reason I'm having this clean up, so I don't want to just use the Migration Assistant.
Could someone please advise me how to do this.
Thanks a lot.

1. Yes
2. FireFox: user>Library>Application Support take the Firefox folder.
This article should be of help:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350

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