Need Help Quick Installing new Hard Drive

I have a MacBook Pro, an Intel Mac Mini, and a video iPod. I will be receiving a new 100GB 2.5- Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 7200RPM SATA Notebook Drive from FedEx today. What is the best way to go about not having to reinstall Mac OS & my applications, etc.?
I bought a 2.5 USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure Kit from Best Buy, but it says it's for an ATA hard disk drive. I was hoping I could put the new drive in there & then use Carbon Copy Cloner. Then put the new drive into the MacBook. But am I right in thinking that the new hard drive (SATA) will not work in this ATA enclosure?
So, should I just do a full backup onto my iPod or Mac Mini, then install the new drive, install OS X, then do a restore?
Please help!

you cannot put the sata HD in that enclosure.
From what I'm thinking is you could buy a firewire sata enclosure (I don't know if there is one available), put the new drive in it, and install the system software to that drive, and when it comes to the window that offer you to migrate and transfer, select it and point that to your old HD, and it will transfer all of your files and hopefully all your apps as well.
Or either you back up your old MacBook HD to iPod using USB 2.0 or using back up to Mac Mini with firewire protocol using Target Drive Mode, then do the custom installation on your new HD in your MacBook.
After that you can pull the data back to your new HD.

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