Migration assistant from an XP to MacPro, is there a fix?

When attempting to help my in-laws transfer their information and settings from there old XP machine to their new Mac. Intrying the Migration assistant I found that everything installs propery on the XP machine but the process freezes at the part where the XP machine is supposed to shaw the unique code that the Mac generates.
Some older post I read on this forum say this process doesn't work but some newer posts make it sound as though is does.
Is there a link someone could share for the fix?
I do know that if there is no fix it is all manual and I am OK with that, just more time consuming, esp transfering Outlook mail file and settings.
Thank you,

Migration Assistant isn't perfect, if it doesn't work, then use a external drive and transfer files manually, format the drive (empty of data) exFAT or FAT to work with both.
You can't transfer programs from a Windows PC to a Mac with OS X, you have to buy OS X versions of Office.
If you have Windows installed on a Mac, you can transfer programs, provided the XP ones run in Windows 7, but they have to be reinstalled with the developers installer, WIn7  is the only version supported in BootCamp.
Virtual machine software can run the Windows XP and Vista with their programs, provided one has a retail version of XP and/or Vista.

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