Migration Assistant but keeping old laptop

My girlfriend has a Ibook G4 which she and I both have a user account set up on. I have now bought an IMac for myself and we want to transfer certain things to it in order for me to use that machine primarily.
I want to transfer my user account in entirety to the new Imac but we also want to move the I tunes folder (which is under her user profile) because we have much more hard drive space on the new Imac.
All of her other settings must remain on the Ibook for her continued use. Can anyone recommend the best way to accomplish this? I guess I can use migration assistant to move my user account but what is the best way to move the Itunes folder?
As I am very new to macs, will the music files under her user account now be locked to me if I transfer them to my Imac and place them in my user account?
Is it simpler just to copy both user accounts onto the new machine and if so, will the files on the laptop be unaffected (copied rather than transferred).
I hope this is clear and any advice would be appreciated.
Ibook Mac OS X (10.4.8) IMac 17"

The Migration Assistant only copies, it doesn't wipe anything on the original machine.
I would recommend that you move both user accounts over, and then log in (on the new machine) as her, move the iTunes folder to the Shared folder (you'll see it under the main Users folder) and set its permissions so that you both can read and write to it (highlight it, click cmd-i, and go to the Ownership and Permissions tab - set all the values to Read/Write).
Then, log back in as yourself, and move the iTunes folder into your Music folder. When you launch iTunes, it'll recognise the library automatically.
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