Moving old Time Capsule from PowerBook G4 to New MacBook Pro?

So I finally got a new Mac Book Pro and have been using a PowerBook G4 and backing up using TimeCapsule regularly to a 1 TB external Drive. When I started the MacBook Pro and started steping through the setup pages, I plugged in the external drive when asked if I wanted to migrate my old info from Time Capsule to the MacBook Pro. It seems to have found the Time Capsule files, but it still says searching other sources. It has been doing this for about 3 hours now. Does it normally take this long to migrate the info? Is it just hanging? What can I do to force the issue?
My PowerBook G4 is running 10.5.8 and there are about 5 backups on the external drive for Time Capsule.

Ok, I feel dumb! Just hadn't choosen the source drive...duh!

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