My Itunes and Iphotos Libraries Didn/t make it over..

I have a G4 10.5 and tried Migration from my old G4 10.3.9 no good didn't see target disk even though support states it will work as far back as 8. something.....
So on advice i downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner and dropped it all onto my Lacacie 320G Ext hard drive and then attached to my new Imac and migrated everything including Photoshop DPP etc no problems..
What i didn't get was my Itunes and Iphoto libraries and i have large ones...I have tried dropping jpegs onto my EXT hard drive but i keep getting errors and the old Mac struggles with the volume. I havn't tried my music yet....Does any one have a fix for this please....
Apple care couldn't help me and what's really annoying is the shop i bought from told me migration would work and now they say "gee thats strange sorry "

If you look in the pictures folder on your clone (users ==> "your user name" ==>Pictures and copy the iPhoto library to the pictures folder on your new G4 then launch iPhoto you should have you complete library there (upgraded as necessary) under Leopard - note you do NOT import it you copy it to the pictures folder on the G$ from the clone)
Also for more detailed questions you might try the iPhoto forum - http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1192 - that is where the iPhoto gurus ahng out
LN
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