Migrate to new iMac after booting new iMac

        A friend and I just bought new iMacs. I migrated from my old mac upon booting through the normal process. He booted his computer and "looked at it", thereby creating a user. Now he needs to migrate his old computer. Most of the directions I find explain the basic migration process used when you boot into a new computer. Since he already has started using his new iMac I'm checking for the best process for migration at this point. My thoughts are...
   1.    Start up from the recovery partition and tell it to Reinstall a new copy. That should put the computer back into a totally clean mode that he can then use to do a firewire transfer of his old user and data and he should end up with a single user.
   2. Use Migration assistant and pull over his old user, then assign that user as admin and wipe out (or leave) the user created on his iMac. I'm not sure if using the migration assistant AFTER the computer has been started causes any problems with user ID or creates other issues. I don't know if it pulls over all the Library parts that are not part of the User folder....
   I'd appreciate your comments on how to best pull over all his files, startup programs and such now that he already has a user on his new imac and whether it's to any advantage to wipe his new iMac and start from scratch. Thanks.

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