Migration Assistant not working from G4 to Mac Pro

When I re-start my old G4 holding down the T key, the screen never comes back on with the floating firewire symbol (I've tried two cables so far). And my new Mac Pro gives me the message "There are no versions of Mac OS X available on your old Mac." This is not true, I am running system 10.4.10 on my old machine. My new machine has Leopard. Am I better off re-installing everything as the new machine has an Intel processor and the G4 does not, as time consuming as that might be, maybe it is the best thing to do?
Thanks for any advice you can share.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
Just don't select applications.
OS X Tiger for PPC is a totally different OS and applications that install anything into the top level Library or System can cause all sorts of problems, from the computer running slow or worse. Otherwise, using MA to import your home account works fine.

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