Migration Assistant Failure - Lion - MacBook Air

I'm trying to migrate my 2010 13-inch MacBook Air to a 2011 13-inch Macbook Air. Tried all kinds of ways. Migration Assistant reports that it keeps loosing the connection between the two Macs. Even tried the peer-to-peer option. I think this is a bug in Lion. ***** because now I'm forced to make a Time Machine backup of the old machine to try that method. Six hours from now!!!

What have you done so far.
I did the same Migration this way:
First I did a full Bootable copy of my old MacBook AIr HD to an external HD, then I connected the external HD to the new MacBook AIr via USB cable and did the Migration.
In one hour I had the new MBA a mirror copy of my old MBA, no problems at all.
I hope this may help you and others.
Before doing this I asked at the Apple store if I could use an USB connection to do the Migration and the answer was "NO"!!!!!!
Good luck.

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