New hard drive, Leopard upgrade, restore disks needed?

Hi
I have a macbook which shipped with Tiger and ilife 06.
Several months ago I upgraded to Leopard and ilife 08 - both great.
Now I want to upgrade my hard drive to a bigger one, so I just need a bit of advice please.
There is plenty of advice here and on the apple support site about how to upgrade your hard drive, but not when you have upgraded the OS.
The simplest way would be to use CCC to clone it, but I want a clean install. I hope that I don't have to use the restore disks, then upgrade both OSX and ilife - that would be painful!
Anyway, here goes.
I have a SATA enclosure.
What is the best way to proceed? Do I need either of the restore disks that came with the macbook, or do I just need the new Leopard and ilife (retail) upgrade disks?
I am happy with taking the old drive out (after doing a last time machine backup - just in case!) and putting it into the external enclosure and putting the new drive in the macbook.
Then, what is the best way to restore my data? Time machine? Migration assistant? Dragging and dropping everything? (what about preferences & settings?)
Thanks for all your help.

Thanks - do I need the old restore disks that came with the mac at all, or are they just Tiger, ilife 06 and a bit of free software, therefore not needed. I am a little concerned that they contain some drivers etc that i might need.
I have retail disks of Leopard and ilife 08, bought separately.
Thanks
Karl

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