Migration assistant - oops!

I just used migration assistant to migrate from an internal drive (MacHD). MacHD used to live in my Dual PowerMac G5. The migration took a long time, as the estimated time remaining counted down from 2 hours to "less than a minute left". It sat at "less than a minute left" for about an hour and never finished -- so I quit Migration Assistant and rebooted.
My old applications couldn't be found on my new computer unless I'm logged in as my old persona -- where did they go?
I know they're on my computer because I have about 180GB less space than I did before. I looked through the discussion boards, and now realize that migrating from a PowerPC to an Intel is a bad idea!
What should I do? Is there a way to undo the migration, or should I reinstall from scratch to free up that space again?
Thanks!

igrating from a PowerPC to an Intel is a bad idea!
Not really. However, you should start with this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1872713
Simplest way back is to restore the machine to its new state using the disks that came with it, get a bootable HD, and put a bootable backup/clone onto the the HD, test it, and then try migrating again.

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