Moving from old iPhone and 10.4 OS Macbook to new iPhone 4G and 10.5 iMac

I have an original iPhone and have it synced to a 5 year old MacBook which is on 10.4.11. Not Snow Leopard. Now I have a new iPhone and have discovered that it requires at least a 10.5.
My proposal is to change computers to sync with so move old phone to the iMac. Then, sync iPhone 4 to that computer.
I'm trying to move all apps.
I have iTunes library in an external hard drive but have not been successful in using this to access all music in both computers. (MacBook has most purchased music on it, copied to external hard drive, attached to iMac and Media Library now pulls from External Hard Drive with limited success).
Before I do this, I just want to find out if this is the best route.
Thanks!

DHodges wrote:
1. DO NOT use Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant; and
There were some occasional problems transferring from PPC Macs to Intel Macs, if the new one was running Leopard or the first couple of releases of Snow Leopard. By all accounts, those were fixed long ago.
But there's always the possibility of a problem; you should be doing regular backups of your Mac anyway, but if you haven't, this is the time to start, "just in case." You can't use Time Machine on Tiger, but you will be able to on your new Mac. In the meantime, CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper can make "bootable clones" of your Mac. CCC is donationware; SD has a free version, but you need the paid one (about $30) to do updates instead of full replacements, or scheduling. Either is easily found via Google.
2. Go ahead use them, they've worked for me
Setup Assistant is by far the easiest, simplest, most reliable way. See [Setting up a new Mac from an old one or its backups|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
. . . or if I choose the Setup/Migrate Assistants method - - won't any issues that my current Mac might have on it (if any) going to get transferred to the new iMac either way?
Depends on what the issues are. If they're OS-related, no, since you'll have a whole new OS. If you have broken or partially-deleted apps, yes, some of that sort of problem might be transferred. Fix such problems first, if at all possible; otherwise you'll have to fix them later.

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