Migration from G5 to new i5 iMac

I've been using a G5 iMac with Tiger, then Leopard, for the past 6 years. I've now bought an i5 iMac to get Snow Leopard before the last chance to do so vanishes. I have some questions about migration of all my data.
Question 1.
Is it better to connect Time Machine and allow Migration Assistant to do it, or connect the G5 in Target Disk Mode and do it myself?
Question 2.
Is this the correct sequence?
a) migrate the Users folder over
b) migrate the top level Library folder over
c) migrate the Applications folder (but see below)
Question 3.
Will the Preferences and Application Support files in my Users folder still be valid with Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac? Or is this not something to worry about?
Question 4.
I assume I should not simply copy the entire Applications folder over? Otherwise I will overwrite all the Apple apps (iTunes, Safari, iLife etc) with their older counterparts which I've been using up to now. Is there a quick way to exclude Apple apps when I copy the Applications across, or is it a slow and painstaking process of copying apps over one at a time?
Question 5.
If I want to keep iTunes 9, do I download it from Apple before I ever launch it for the first time, and then it will safely overwrite iTunes 10?
Question 6.
If Snow Leopard is pre-loaded on the new iMac, can I assume Rosetta is too? If it isn't, do I have to completely reinstall the OS again, or do a Custom install and just select Rosetta? Or can I download Rosetta instead if it's not there? Is there a way to know if Rosetta is there BEFORE I start migrating data?
Question 7.
There's an option to upgrade free to Lion with the new machine, within 30 days. Can I create a new small partition for it and download it there, or will downloading Lion result in upgrading SL on the main partition (which I DON'T want to happen!)?
Many thanks for any help you can give.

Wow! That's some pretty involved procedure
I'm not sure why you say that. There are indeed complicated procedures that have been used for this, but when I said "see my posts in this thread" what I was referring to was my second post there, which contained the following:
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Unlike most other current Mac models, the current iMac that now ships with Lion is probably still the same "Mid 2011" hardware version that had originally shipped with Snow Leopard v OS X 10.6.6 back in May, and such an iMac could probably still run Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.6 - 10.6.8, either from an external drive or a from a separate internal drive partition.
However the newest Snow Leopard retail DVD is version 10.6.3, and that is too old to run on a "Mid 2011" Mac. And since you can't run that retail DVD from the new iMac, you can't install Snow Leopard in the usual fashion of starting with v. 10.6.3 and then using Software Update to get to 10.6.8. You need to "somehow" go directly to version 10.6.6 or 10.6.8.
There are several approaches to this. The first is just to make a Genius appointment at a local Apple store and request that they directly install Snow Leopard 10.6.8 for you using their image tools. They are not obligated to do this, but a number of people have reported success this way.
A second way is to use a second, older Mac and the retail Snow Leopard DVD to first install OS X 10.6.3 on an external drive, update that volume to OS X 10.6.8 via the 10.6.8 combo update while still running from the older Mac, and then finally connect that external volume to the new Mac and try to boot from it. If all is well, you could eventually clone the 10.6.8 installation on the external volume onto the second partition on the internal drive.
A third way might be to try to obtain a replacement set of the grey-labled machine-specific 10.6.6 install discs that had originally shipped with your iMac model in the spring of 2011, just before Lion came out. I've seen reports of Apple sending out such DVDs on request, or you could look on Ebay.
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It certainly may be that none of these methods would work out, but the 1st and 3rd suggestions just involve contacting Apple, and the 2nd suggestion would not really be difficult provided you had temporary access to an older Intel Mac.

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