Migration Assistant seems to be hung, cancel?

I ran the Migration Assistant on my New MBP, connected old MBP to it via FireWire, told it to migrate everything. The progress bar ran through counting down about 45 minutes or so, then got to the point of saying Less than a minute remaining with the barber pole bar. It's been saying that for about a half hour or more now, but the stripes are still moving across.
Should I quit and start over, or should I let it run?
(Both machines have the latest updates)

Update
After monitoring Get Info on the internal drive, it appears data is still being written to the drive. So perhaps it is Migration Assistant's status window that is incorrect (ie there is still way more than a minute remaining).
There should be about 12 GBs left to transfer, so I'll see if I have a fully migrated box by then.

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