Migrating a user without Migration Assistant

Hi
My wife's old MacBook (Snow Leopard) just died.  I had backed up my wife's user account, and so I'm trying to transfer her account to my MacBook Pro (Mountain Lion) making my wife an additional user. 
Issue #1
First problem was Migration Assistant didn't want to know.  It appears to only deal with Time Machine back-ups or start-up disks.  My back-up is neither, it's just USERNAME/ Desktop, Downloads, Library etc. on an external drive.
Issue #2
So I logged in as Admin and tried to simply drag the user account and its folders into the USERS directory in the target computer.  Not Permitted.
Issue #3
So I created a new account in my wife's name, then replaced the account folders (Desktop, Downloads, Library etc) with those from the back-up.  I logged in as my wife and it seemed like it was working until I got an error message saying iTunes wouldn't open because I didn't have write permission for the iTunes library. 
Going Foward
Seems like I've got two options:
Fix the permissions issue on iTunes
Find a way of getting Migration Assistant (or something else similar) to work – and start the migration all over again.
Fixing permissions seems quicker, provided you know what you're doing!  Advice gratefully received. 
Marcus

When you replaced the folders, were you logged into your wife's account? If not, they copied folders are owned by the user who created them.
To repair home folder permissions, you need to boot into the Recovery HD (hold down cmd-r on restart). When that boots, select Terminal from the Utilities menu.
Type resetpassword and hit return.
Select your hard drive, then her user account, then click the button at the bottom to Reset Home folder permissions and ACLs.

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