Missing Keys or Characters

When I received my new Macbook, I used a FireWire cable (a standard 6-pin cable, not an Apple one, since it was easier to get one locally than to wait for one to be sent from the city) to transfer my data from my iBook. This went fine. Only the Missing Sync was reported as not transferring properly, so I simply reinstalled it.
However, when I booted and tried to use my new Macbook, the h, v and m would not work. I could press the keys, but nothing happened. I wondered if it were a hardware issue, a problem with the keys themselves. However, I found out that the upper-case H, V and M worked fine. So it was a software issue.
As usual when troubleshooting, I tried turning off each of my extra Preference Panes (system-level modifications), repairing permissions, deleting individual Preferences. I installed the 10.4.7 system update. Eventually, I rebuilt prebindings (available from Tiger Cache Cleaner), which requires a restart, and I can now input all my characters perfectly.
I hope the problem is solved for good. However, quite a few of the applications which I've transferred from my iBook turn out not to be fat binaries ("universal" binaries) but strangely enough, still appear to work. I don't know what effect they have on this machine. The screen does redraw very slowly sometimes, in bands from the top, and the Dock comes up in jerks. The cursor also freezes often. I don't know if all these things are connected. I'll report back if I find out.

Your older apps for the most part are supposed to 'just work' via Rosetta.
Migration assistant is great, however if you are going from a PPC machine to an Intel one I would personally only do a User account migration, that way system files that may be incompatible won't end up on your new machine. Obviously you have had mostly good luck, but at the same time you did have some weirdness appear.
When I got my Macbook, I did a migration of only the user account from my old machine, and loaded the software by hand, replacing with UB versions whenever possible. Except for overloading the machine when it had only 512MB RAM I had no issues at all.
And don't worry about the firewire cable, Apple doesn't make them itself, they buy them bulk from other companies and either just resell them, or have them relabeled as an Apple product.

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