My fw800 running 10.5.8 will not migrate to new Mac Mini running snow leop

My install of snow leopard on the Mac Mini was normal. But I can not successfully migrate my 10.5 stuff to the new mini. I have gone through the migration process at least 10 times. It appears to be running normally but it never finishes. It starts at about 6 hours and gets down to about 2 hours. It sometimes just quits. Sometimes it starts counting back to a longer time left. Some times you get a warning that there might be a problem with my network and to check my cables. I don't believe that after transferring data for 4 hours my cables are bad. The 360 GHz disk on my Mac mini has only 76 GHz left. I have to assume that must have 200GHz of partial transfer garbage on the disk. My only thought is to try firewire instead of using the network but I have to go buy the correct cable tomorrow. I am probably stuck with reloading the 10.6 in any case. Anyone have any thoughts on my messy problem??

As my Mac mini HD was garbaged up, I put in the snow leopard install CD, used disk util to wipe the mini HD and reinstalled snow leopard. After the install the first couple of windows ask if you want to import your old data. I chose wireless, connected to my old FW800. The complete transfer took an hour including all applications. I was not about to start from square one with all of the apps. Using the network to transfer did not work. The wireless method worked perfectly and quickly. Thanks Bob

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