Migration to lion from tiger

I am attempting to migrate from a tiger OS 10.4 Macbook to a Lion Macbook Pro.  Everytime that migration is initiated my Pro states that I need to run an update on my Tiger Macbook.  Once I attempt to update there is no update available.  How do I make THIS **** WORK??!

Assuming both have Firewire & you have the proper FW cable, then you only need Migration Assistant on the newer one, put the old one in Target mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

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    stirling-dad wrote:
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