Migration Assistant keeps locking up

I have tried three times to migrate my PB17 to my brand new iMac 20" with iSight. All three times, the migration chokes when the iMac says I have 1 hour 35 minutes to go on the migration. At that same time, the PB17 (in target disk mode) appears to lock up (the firewire logo quits moving around on the screen).
I "chatted" with Apple tech support last night and couldn't figure it out so I'm coming to you folks for help.
Oh, another thing, since I have an accout as myself (Tark Bunch) on BOTH the iMac and the PB17, the migration assistant doesn't like this, so I have to re-identify the PB17 user as someone else before continuing with the migration (in this case I become TarQ Bunch). This seems to enable the migration to start, but never allows for a successful migration.
Apple tech support asked if I had updated the firmware on the PB17 (I haven't, but assume it is up-to-date with the software updater). They also asked if I had the fileVault on (no I don't) and they thought I should run disk utility on the PB17 (which I haven't had time to do yet).
looking forward to suggestions (better yet, solutions
-Tark

Royal Pain is right, but sadly, this was what I had to do to migrate.
I took your advice, hooked the two computers together via Firewire, with my old computer in target mode.
I then dragged directories over. By this approach, I ended up with the old computer locking up during the transfer. I finally traced it to a corrupt jpg.
Since I had already moved a lot of files accross to the iMac, I then purged those files off of the old PB17.
I emptied the trash, rebooted and attempted migration again. I deliberately did not migrage Applications and the Migration went off without a hitch.
All my stuff was on the new system (except the files I had purged) and my iTunes database remembers what I played last and how many times
It would be sweet if Migration assistant could run a diagnostic to find these files and save ourselves a lot of work, but maybe we are the rare exception (My wife's and kid's migrations went well with no hitches...)

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