Migrate domain accounts to new Mac

Hello,
Does anyone know how to migrate the home folder of domain accounts to a new Mac? I have an iMac running 10.7 which is joined to Active Directory. The home folders of the domain accounts are stored on the iMac.
I have a new iMac with Mountain Lion. Migration Assistant only sees the one local account's home folder on the old machine. How can I migrate the domain account folders to the new Mac?
Thanks,
Jack

"...my question is simply one of drive compatibility. Would the new Mac Pro be able to use the HDD from the old G4?..."
No. Not cleanly at all. The Mac Pro's use SATA drives while the G4 would have IDE drives. They are different interfaces. You could potentially get an adapter, something like this to get your connections worked out. However, this issue is still going to be where to physically put the G4's drive inside the Mac Pro. An SATA drive would fit into a bracket, and simply slide right into all the appropriate connections (Power & Data).
But the adapter card you'd have to install to make the IDE drive work, will also prevent it from working as well. Hope that makes sense.
An alternative may be to buy an external Firewire enclosure, ready for an IDE (or "ATA") drive and put the old G4 drive there. Simple and clean - guaranteed to work.
An internal solution does not seem possible to me.

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