Moving home folder.

I just installed an SSD in my MBP, and put a fresh install of Mountain Lion on one of two partitions. I previously had a normal hard disk with multiple partitions and my home folder on a separate partition from my OS partition, and followed these directions to enable this:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1164891/keeping_mac_os_and_data_on_separate_driv es.html
So on my current setup I created a test account and transfered it as before, and restarted. The new test account with the home folder worked just fine, as expected.
However, when I attempted to move the account I have been using the few days I've had the computer set up already, I am having no luck. The home folder will not finish copying; it stops at 4.99, 4.98 or 5.00 gigabytes, claiming it needs 10 more seconds to complete the copy but never finishing. There are 5.6 gigabtyes in my home folder, mostly made up of disc image downloads I needed to set up the computer, some music iTunes downloaded from my iTunes Match account and my Dropbox folder.
I have tried it with Dropbox running and after quitting Dropbox, but it refuses to complete the copy operation.
I give up. What am I doing wrong?

I appreciate your response, but I don't want this to turn into a side debate about SSDs and partitions. This is one of the reasons I rarely post to these discussions! Please stay relevant to the question.
That said, I have had two spinning hard drives fail in the last week, and I made the decision to use SSDs from now on. I installed a Data Doubler and an OWC Electra 3G 120 GB drive, and soon I'll also have the OWC 960 GB drive in my MBP. I'll need little else except for backup.
I have made the decision to move my home folder to a different volume as my boot volume, but most of the data, i.e. Lightroom master image files and iTunes Media folders will be on the big SSD.
Anyway, to put this to bed I just deleted my old user account and opened a new one. I still don't know why it wouldn't transfer over but now I don't care.

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    The "ln -s" command creates a link from the external HDD directory, to a directory in your present location (i.e., your home directory)
    There is one side affect that I don't know how to get around.  Once you do this, the icon that shows up for the "Movies" folder in your home directory will no longer be the fancy system icon for the Movies folder.  It will be a vanilla folder icon, with an curved arrow.  The curved arrow is a visual indication that the file/folder is link to somewhere else.
    Hope this helps.

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