My wifes messy iMac-move - please help

Please help me get my wife "back on track"
We have several Mac computers, timecapsules etc. and recently, my wife sold her old MacBook Pro and bought a shiny new iMac.
I made sure that she had a Timecapsule-backup of her MBP but after almost a month of daily use, I now realise that she did NOT import her backup when starting the new imac. She simply started from scratch.
She used the same username etc. and to make things worse, she's done a lot of work, iTunes music, iPhote images etc etc etc in the mean time.
I need to help her get her old stuff to the iMac without deling the new stuff.
Is there a way for me to merge her two userprofiles to one or any other ideas I can work from?
Thanks in advance
Message was edited by: KLP29

I think the best thing to try is get an ext HD and try to restore the TM backup to the ext HD. That allows you to recover her old stuff from the TM backup. Check out the FAQ under the TM forum. I don't do TM stuff, so can't help with those details.

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