New iMac setup assistant problems?

I have a brand new iMac literally fresh out of the box.
I am having major problems just getting through the initial setup assistant.
I didn't migrate anything this is just all from scratch.
The setup assistant is very very slow taking several minutes to recognize what I entered from the keyboard.
Screens were juxtaposed over each with the text overlapping. I can't see the question that it has the cursor in a blank field to answer to.
It gets hung in a loop asking for Cloud password info. It doesn't see what I typed in and just hangs.
A very frustrating initial experience with the new machine. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
Jesse

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I've googled, searched here and read the links, but they confuse me.
Bought a new iMac, Intel, Snow Leopard, still in box.
Loved my older iMac, dome base, PPC, running Tiger. It died last week (take my word for it), monitor, among other things, conked out. Been running it for a couple of years off a bootable firewire drive.
Using my Leopard (white) MacBook, I've dragged all my data files from the bootable PPC Tiger drive to back-up drives for safekeeping, then erased them from the Tiger drive.
Mostly, I'd like to have my Safari and Firefox bookmarks transfered to the new iMac, but if I can, I'd also like to have the actual older Firefox application transfered, too, given I don't care for the newer Firefox I use on my MacBook. But there are a few not-very-significant odds and ends applications I'd like to transfer, too, and maybe there would be some stuff like my printer and scanner settings/data that would be transfered.
When I bought the new iMac a couple of days ago, the Genius Bar advised me to use the setup assistant the first time I turned on the new iMac.
But I don't want to transfer my user account/settings to the new iMac, I want a new identity/password. Or iMovie2 (won't work on the Intel Mac)...and so on.
Besides, I CAN'T start up my old iMac in "Target Disk Mode"--the old iMac is DEAD. All I have is the bootable Tiger external firewire drive. Nothing to boot it with, though. So will that rule out Migration Assistant, too?
And, no, I live in a rural area, I don't know anyone with a Tiger PPC Mac--otherwise I could boot from my external drive and export the Firefox and Safari bookmarks.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

If your Firewire drive does indeed have a bootable copy of Tiger on it, you can connect that to your new iMac and let Migration Assistant migrate from it to your new iMac. I have not done this but I read about it on the discussions at the SuperDuper website. SuperDuper's head guy specifically said that it was a doable way to migrate to a new Mac.
I was sort of in your situation recently when I got my new iMac but I was a little better off in that my old flat panel 17 inch G4 iMac running Tiger was still in perfect working condition. After batting the issue around I finally decided against using Migration Assistant and I just did a manual migration by dragging and dropping data files and reinstalling applications.
If I had to do it all over, I'd probably just use Migration Assistant, but for some reason decided against it at the time. Several posters here have said they've used MA with good success in just our situation of going from PPC Tiger to Intel Snow Leopard. But there are a few hardliners who recommend a manual approach. As I said I'd probably go with MA if I had to do it over again. And if you have a bootable clone you can use MA to go from it to your new iMac.
By the way, which method did you use to make your bootable clone, SuperDuper or CCC or Disk Utility? As I said, the guy at SD definitely said MA would work on an SD clone.
Of course not all of your old PPC apps will work on your Intel iMac. But I gather from what I've read that Migration Assistant is "smart" enough to know how to handle the migration.
You seem to want to transfer only certain selected items so I'm not really sure how to advise you on that. I think there are some selections you can make when you use MA that will determine what gets transferred but I'm not familiar with it since I didn't use it myself.
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I recently purchased a new iMac this month because my old one was no longer working, I can't keep it on for more than 2 minutes.
I always used Time Machine to back up my files, when I transferred all my files to my new iMac I was given alot of trouble with the permissions problem. I got the files to open by copying the folders to the desktop but, for example, all my iTunes music cannot be edited. I get alot of error messages about not being able to save iTunes library because I don't have write permissions.
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You could create a new user that you will later use as an admin/test account. Then, while logged into the new account, delete the old account and use the Migration Assistant in the Utilities folder to Migrate from your Time Machine backup--it should create a new user with the old user info.
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I got the iMac today and it walked me through a system where I hooked up a firewire between the two, but felt like I wasn't doing it right, so stopped. My fear is my iTunes will implode or something. I have two AppleTv's and two iPhones, so I can't afford to screw this up.
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Wow, I'm shocked it's this difficult! I think I screwed things up when I stopped the migration process with the old PowerBook. How do I get back on track?

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