Migration Assistance problems for PC running XP to iMac with osx lion

I had a very old PC with XP that was cluttered with lots of crap. I didn't want to migrate much to my new computer, so I created a folder of music and artwork I wanted to transfer. Everything successfully migrated, but it is now trapped in a different user on the new computer. How do I actually access the data on my main user account and use it?? Or did I do something wrong and just need to start over if I want them on the same user?
Not sure if this matters, but since I did not have itunes on my old computer I just transported a lot of mp3 files catergorized by their respective band/album.
Help much appreciated!

You did nothing wrong but PowerPC apps are not supported in Lion.
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Pondini wrote:
DrSam wrote:
One other caveat, which I learned in my search... Apparently if you are restoring via Migration Assistant, you can't restore to a user account that you are currently on, and you can't restore to a user account with the same name as the one you are restoring, without replacing the former.
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And unbelievable that this would be the way Apple intended the process to go. I still am not sure how I could have gotten this to work from the start within Setup Assistant, which obviously you're supposed to be able to do,
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