Migration Assistant on MB Pro never stops looking for the PB G4 with Panthe

Hi,
I bought a Macbook Pro 13 inch to add to my PB G4 12 inch running OS X 10.3.9. When I selected migrate data from another Mac and tried to follow the instructions for migrating over airport it doesn't work.
I installed the update for airport sharing from the MBP's dvd and the old PB connects to the MBP but the MBP never stops "looking for computers".
I've also tried connecting through my router's network and with an ethernet cable.
I don't yet have a cable that can do Firewire 800 to Firewire 400. (I never realized the ports were different )
I tried turning off the firewall on the PB G4, turning on Appletalk on both Macs. Some articles talk about turning on Bonjour (can't find that on the new Mac and on the old one I think it's called rendezvous for iChat.)
I found this article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1554?viewlocale=en_US#faq13
and this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3253
and this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322
But I'm lost for trying to make this work before my new Firewire cable is delivered.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!

Marlinespike:
I think you may have missed the ads see this page http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shopmac/family/macbookpro?mco=NzUyMzg0
I make a habit of missing ads by not watching TV, not readng the newspaper, listening to NPR and using AdBlocker in Firefox. However, thanks for updating my information. I use Mactracker for info, but apparently they have not yet updated their data.
at this point I can't get either computer to even recognize the other one even when both are connected to each other by airport computer to computer network or through the router. I don't know if they're seeing each other when directly connected by ethernet.
Are you using FileSharing in System Preferences? I don't do much networking so I may not be up on the technology, but when I have used it I set up FileSharing on both computers.
I loathe having to reset all my internet connections and I was hoping to avoid having to do the manual drag and copy
I was advised, when I was in your situation, that Migration Assistant is not the most effective way to update the new computer. Take a look at the advice I got in this thread.
Sorry about the firewire cable. I have several laying around here, wish I could link on to this post
cornelius

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