Intego Personal Backup - Restore to a new iMac

Old G5 iMac dies a catastrophic death leaving me with a Lacie external hard drive with backup copies of Clone System & Home Folders created by Intego Personal Backup.
New Intel iMac being delivered (with basic software config of MAC OS X & some applications)
Q ?? - What process should I use to get the 'old' applications & data files, especially the email folders, from the Intego Backup version on the Lacie external Drive onto the new iMac ??
Thanks

Thanks Allan,
Your suggestion was what I feared and I am planning to re-install all the applications & extras that I had on the old G5 iMac.
That still leaves the question about restoration of data, eg Mail folders, iPhoto, iTunes etc etc, that I suspect may not be as easy as Offices Folders for example. Any suggestions here; one idea is to set up a temporary new user on the new iMac, restore the Home Folder to that user & then use Apple Migration Tools (don't know much about these yet but presume they come with the new Intel iMac) to migrate Mail etc folders to the new personal accounts. I presume, though, that this will need an Intel version of Intego Personal Backup to be installed first.
Cheers - Tony

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