Migration from a 10.7 MBP to a 10.6 MBP

This has been asked before but I just want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.
My wife and daughter shared a MBP running 10.7. My daughter is taking her MBP to college so my wife will now share my son's MBP that runs 10.6. In addition to her files, she would like old, saved email messages to migrate to my son's MBP along with her Mail.app settings. If it was just files, I think I could use Target Disc mode and drag them over, but to get the settings and preferences, I need to use the Migration Assistant.
From what I've read here and Pondini's site, it appears I must buy 10.7 for my son's MBP. Then, because we want to migrate only my wife's account, I need to give her a new Account Name on my son's computer as it already has her name listed.
Is this plan correct? She wanted to continue to use 10.6 on my son's computer to avoid buying a 10.7 compatible version of MS Office, but I once migrated an account to an older computer and permissions and passwords were a mess.

Mail from Lion won't work in SL. Too bad, that. My suggestion is bite the bullet, create a second partition on the son's MBP, clone the working volume, boot into it and, let the son create a new admin user account for Mom, using the same username/password combo currently used Bite the bullet and pay the $30 bucks for Lion (only available via Apple's online store's telesales agents: 1-800-MY-APPLE (1-800-692-7753) or Customer Service and Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775. that'll get you a redemptions code via e-mail and you'll need that to DL from the Mac Apple Store (requires SL 10.6.6+).
Let it DL quit the installer when it downlosds, save a copy to a safe location, since the ill-designed installer deletes itself from /Applications, necessitating wasting resources to DL it again or recover lion. Install Lion on this partition, migrate the apps, settings, and data from the Lion machine. Once that's finished Mom can delete son's account, and he can use SL and she can use Lion and all of her mail.

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