Migrate to 2.33 intel imac from dual 2.5 G5

Hi, I'm trying to migrate from my office based G5 to an iMac that I just bought - just so I can have a duplicate system at home. For some reason Migration Assistant tells me that it 'may not be able to transfer from this mac'... and holding the T key down on teh G5 fails every time. I've moved the firewire cable from the front to the back and tried other cables as well....
Anyone any idea why I can't transfer one to the other? I have turned off my passwords, and I dont use Filevault.
Reloading all my software is gonna be, well more than very difficult as I have loads that has been updated over a period of years.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Chris

Actually, I would not be too quick to clone a PowerMac G5 system on to iMac if it happens to be an Intel machine. When a system is installed on any given Macintosh, the Installer always looks at what you are running and it will install only those files that are appropriate for that machine. For a G5 system, you will have files that will not run well (or not at all) on your new machine. In fact you may find that you will not be able to boot up to run anything.
So, I would stick with the idea of putting the G5 machine into Target mode and running Migration Assistant from the new iMac.
Or do what many others do: Install a virgin system on the iMac drive and take the time to install all the files that you want to run on it from scratch. You may get frustrated from time to time, but you will end up with a lean and mean system that runs like, well, a Tiger!
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