Migration Assistant Fails during X.4 to X.5 Upgrade

I'm trying to upgrade from X.4 to X.5.
I did an Archive and Install, and Migration Assistant fails.
It firstly fails with some Address Book backup files.
These are located in: david/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Address Book Backup
With filenames such as: Address Book - 01/02/2008
The error is "File name too long (63)"
I removed the whole folder and tried again, and it failed with 'Invalid Argument'
I ended up restoring X.4 from a disk image.
I then tried installing X.5 on a bootable external FireWire drive with GUID partition map, migrating from the internal hard drive.
This also fails at the same point.
Any suggestions?
Many TIA
David

It would appear that the Address Book backup file was corrupt. The size indicated was around 180MB, rather than around 10MB! The visible file name looked OK.
Ironically, X.5 was able to copy the file to a new location. It complained about file name length, but copied it and reduced the file size to 9MB. Rather a shame that Migration Assistant doesn't use the same copy facilities.
What has this taught me?
1. BACKUP! Create a disc image of the full hard disc. OK, it's said elsewhere, but it really can't be said too often!
2. Set up an Administrator/admin account. One that's essentially not used, but can access all Applications, networks and settings. If I had done this, I could have migrated this account as part of the installation process, and worried about migrating the main User account separately, using Migration Assistant.
However, I now have a new problem!
For some reason, I can't access the wireless network I've been using. I can see the neighbour's network(!), but not my own. I'm using WEP security.
Any ideas?
Many thanks,
David

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Sounds like you've been through the ringer . After Apple replaced FW with Thunderbolt my boss tasked one of the techs and me to investigate alternatives. We both found WiFi useless for anything more than a couple GB of data and even then we experienced too many failures to recommend it. Theoretically migrating with Ethernet should be a good choice but once again we experienced failures we couldn't explain. That led us to recommend users back up via clone or TimeMachine to an external drive and migrate using the external drive.
That should have ended the matter but I've since added a qualifier to that recommendation; a USB external drive may be your best option. We've always known that some FW chipsets were flaky but an additional layer of flakiness has been added with the Thunderbolt/FireWire adaptor.

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