Migration Assistant update not following through

I am trying to migrate the contents of my 10.4.11 Tiger to a new MacBook. It says I need to update the Migration Assistant on my Tiger. I have downloaded and installed this, http://support.apple.com/kb/DL713. IT seems to work smoothly, but the Migration Assistant on my Tiger is still 1.06, and I cannot get my two computers to connect to each other through the Assistant. What am I doing wrong?

Correct, the method that requires using MA on both Computers will not work with Tiger/10.4.x
If both of these have Firewire it can be done running only MA on the new Mac & the older one in Target mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Then in MA choode from another Disk or such wording.

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