Migration from MacBook Pro to MacBook Pro

I hope I'm in the right forum as this concerns both Tiger & Leopard. I just got my new Leopard-running Macbook pro. My current Macbook pro is running Tiger. I launched the migration assistant on the Leopard machine & all went well until I got the instructions to do the same on the other machine but instead of "to this mac" I was to select "from this mac" Unfortunately that option didn't come up, only "to this mac" or "to another volume" on this mac."
Could it be because I'm using an ethernet cable? The Tiger macs sees the Leopard on the desktop. I'm resorting to ethernet because I'm waiting for my 9-6 firewire cable to arrive.
Your comments would be most appreciated.
Thanks.

I'm not sure how it works when Networked via Ethernet, never used that method, only with the old one in Target Mode via FW cable.
Sorry I can't really help on your question, but I'm thinking from the info you give, that Tiger's MA doesn't understand Leopards MA in this situation, looks like Tiger's MA wants to do the Migrating, which wouldn't be good at all.
I'd wait for the FW cable and just use the Tiger Mac in Target Mode, which Leopard's MA choice will then be from another HD on this Mac...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

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