MBP woes continue - need to do a re-install. But what then?

Everything works after my "full restore", but the entire system is obviously remaining very slow. Beachballs galore. Input taking forever. All hardware tests show no problem though.
So.. I am going to go through a clean install again. <sigh>
This time I'm going to clean install to my external HD (doing it now) so I will have both. Then when I am happy with the way it is working on the external, I'm going to try to move that back to my internal drive after reformatting.
Is it easy to move a complete system from an external HD to the internal HD? Can I do it with Finder drag-and-drop to copy everything over?
doug

Just a followup on this before deciding how to proceed, taking into account Francine's message.
To summarize again, I was having trouble with my MBP running Leopard. It started running really slowly and then wouldn't reastart.
To make a long story short, I ended up doing a full Time Machine restore to my internal HD. It runs from there, but still really, really slowly (beachballs galore). So I did a clean install on to a 230 GB external HD and am moving over just the data I need from my internal HD, which is the standard MBP 160 GB HD.
The system on my external HD is running very quickly!
What I would like to do now is move my entire system from the external HD into the internal HD. Can I reformat the internal HD and use CCC to do this? Is it a problem that the two disk sizes are different? The OS+data itself is much smaller than the internal HD's 160 GB of course.
Could I accomplish the same thing as CCC by doing a Time Machine backup and then restoring from that (like I did earlier today with my old system?)
I understand from Francine, and also calling Apple, that I could do the same thing from the install DVD inside Disk Utility - choosing the external HD as the source and the internal HD as the target. Is CCC's result different from this?
Thanks!
doug

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