Migration from powerbook causing freezing and spotted display

Hi everyone,
I bought a used 24" Imac recently. I have been trying to migrate stuff from my 17" Powerbook G4. They are both running Leopard.
I originally tried the assistant but would up having issues with the computer freezing from time to time and leaving short pixel lines from time to time.
Started over from scratch. Tried moving over music and photos. Same problem.
Removed the photo library and everything ran fine.
Moved over my mail folder from library and the com.apple.mail.plist from the preferences folder.
Opened mail and the screen turned fuzzy/pixelated on me. Computer crawled. Forced quit mail (process took 30 minutes...)
What is going on? Will I ever be able to migrate to my new computer? I love my old powerbook and all, but...

You know it does seem to be the memory. Once I replaced the memory with different chips all kernel panics have stopped, same with freezes. Funny how this passed all the memory tests.
All seems to be better now anyway....thanks.

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