Migration assistant ALWAYS gets stuck, how to fix?

I have been having perpetual troubles with the migration assistant. It always gets stuck on the final stage of transferring. This has happened with my previous transfer attempts and now is happening again as I try to transfer from 17 inch 2.3 ghz MBP to a 17 inch 2.4 ghz mbp.
When I first tried to transfer everything over, it got stuck on "transferring network and other settings". The progress bar looks about 99% done. But it sits there FOR-E-VER and NEVER finishes. So I erased and reinstalled os x fresh on the destination computer, and tried all over again without selecting network settings to transfer. Now it has been having less than 1 minute remaining "transferring files to support applications" for over an hour now.
The same thing happened last time I migrated from a powerbook G4 to a mbp 17 inch. What is going on?????
The migration assistant seems to be a piece of junk.

The Migration Assistant is known (by users of this board) to be problematic between PowerPC and Intel. If you succeeded the first time, it may be the problems the second go around even though they are between Intel Macs, is from any Rosetta applications and plugins installed on your older Intel Mac.
Here's the user tip Kappy and I wrote about migrating between platforms:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=1872713

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