Moving data/users G3, G4, Mac Mini...

Not sure exactly where to post this, but here's the situation.
My daughter is using a G3/266 with sonnett trio, 200 Gig HD ,768 ram, OSX 10.40. Wife has G4 AG, 200Gig HD running off a PCI controller, Sonnett Encore ST G4/i000 upgrade CPU, I Gig memory.
I have bought a Mac Mini to replace the G4. The G4 will go to replace daughter's G3. I want to migrate G4 user to the new mini and G3 user/data to the G4. My thinking was use migration utility to transfer G4 to mini, remove 200 Gig HD from G3 and put in G4. should this work since OSX 10.4 was installed on the G3 using helper app Xpofacto? Do you see a better alternative?

The terminology always baffles me -- I have to go back to fundamental principles because the names they use seem backward.
You want your old Mac to serve as a FireWire Hard Drive for your new Mac. So you send your old Mac into Target disk mode \[cringe, I hate that terminology] by holding down the t key at startup. If a display were attached, you would see a screensaver of the FireWire Icon.
The new Mac should shortly notice that you have attached a new FireWire Drive, which should mount on the desktop as a Drive Icon and be available to copy files using the Finder.
Remember that Mac OS X is a multi-User system, and files and documents for each user_id will be stored by their shortname inside the "Users" folder, even if there was only ever one user.
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