New Mac - Does Migration Assistant Step On New iLife?

Greetings!
I'm fortunate to take delivery of a new iMac this afternoon. I plan on using the Migration Assistant to migrate from my old iMac. I have iLife '09, and was wondering if during the migration process if selecting Applications will overwrite the new iLife with the old?
Thanks much,
bE

Hi TD;
I just used MA and it didn't overwrite anything that was newer on the destination machine with the older versions on the source machine. So not to worry, MA is smart enough to keep the latest and greatest.
Allan

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4889
Migration from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger to OS X Lion
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