Mail migration to Lion Server

Well, I've searched the forum and don't see what I'm looking for, so I'm going to ask before I start but proceed anyhow since I don't see anything to indicate anyone has done this yet.
I have 10.6.8 XServe running Mail, iCal, Web Services, iChat, OD (replica). My original collaboration server crashed - so much so that Apple gave me two (2 - count 'em) Mac Mini servers to replace my big beautiful XServe. Here's the wrinkle - since I couldn't be down I took the hard drives (at the recommendation of Tech Support) and put them in a spare server I happened to have (bought two servers at the same time - identical hardware configurations. Everything SEEMS to be working except the RAID array drops one of the hard disk drives when I reboot. Right now it's flashing amber on the front panel. I fully expect this server to fail as well.
I think the Minis are more than capable of running the collaboration services I need. So far the only thing I've done with the Minis is create a Mirrored RAID HDD with the two 750GB HDDs that came with the Mini. I've installed all the updates to Lion to date.
I have been told by Apple that all I need to do is boot my XServe into Target Disk Mode and then migrate the data over from the XServe Drive.
MY QUESTION IS: does anyone know if the Migration Assistant would do the same thing. I'm thinking it WOULD.
Anyhow that's what I'm going to try. IF, however, anyone HAS done it, I'd appreciate any tips before I do it.
All my collaboration data is being stored on the RAID array on the XServe. The XServe has a SSHDD that was running the boot partition, but I disabled that and moved the boot partition to the array because of the "Phantom Disk" problem you get when the SSHDD boots up faster than the RAID array (had I only known when I bought the XServe - great concept - TERRIBLE implementation).
Anyhow, I plan to do this over Columbus Day weekend (or whatever they call it now) - so I'll report back. My Apple Engineer says this is a non-destructive process so if it doesn't work, I can always go back to the old XServe. Then I'll have to figure out some manual way to move the data over. I'm hoping it would be as simple as just copying the data over.
However, the XServe is also an OD replica. I don't know if all that will get migrated over as well. But, we'll see.
Thanks for any tips anyone might have before I do this.
I'm actually pretty stoked about trying this...stay tuned...

Probably the simplest approach is the one I just detailed here https://discussions.apple.com/message/16207870#16207870
Basically it is possible (unofficially) to run 10.6.8 on the new Mac mini, so you could clone your entire setup across to the Mac mini via FireWire Target Disk Mode.

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