Moving old account info to new hard drive

I installed new hard drive, actually 4, and reinstalled Leopord on one of them, actually 2 since I set up a raid 0. I want to move some parts of my old account, which was also 10.5.8, over to new setup and migration assistant won't let me pick and choose, at least not the ones I want. MA won't even let me merge my old account with my new one, they both have same name. I already moved mail by moving mail folder from library and the com.apple.mail.plist to the right folder on new setup and it works fine. Now I want to move ical, safari bookmarks, address book, iphoto, iweb and imovie info, as well as system preferences. What files and folders do I move to make this happen?
Thanks.

See the following for suggestions.
Copy the following items from your old Mac to the new Mac:
In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Credit goes to Macjack for this information.
If you need to transfer data for other applications please ask the vendor or ask in the Discussions where specific applications store their data.
5. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.

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