New MacBook...Best way to....

Have an original MacBook and am going to buy a new one this week. I've backed up my old one with SuperDuper (made an exact copy of the entire drive). I am running the most updated version of OSX (10.5.3).
My question is this...what is the best way to get all my old documents, etc... over to the new MacBook. Not sure if it is best to re-install software or transfer the whole drive over. Thanks in advance.

I am having the same dilemma. I just got my new macbook and I am not satisfied with the job that migration assistant did.
I was considering swapping the harddrives but some drivers may not be the same so i won't do that.
Migration Assistant missed ALOT, and also locked a lot of files which is a pain in the butt. Once I manually transferred over most of what it missed, my HDD is now several GBs more full than my old macbook with the same size HDD, and I am still having issues with iTunes and more.
At this point, I want to format the HDD on the new one and transfer everything over again. Is there a better way to basically "sync" the computers (everything but the OS)? I may just do it manually by firewire but that is pretty time consuming.
Thanks for any recommendations for software that works better than Migration Assistant. I have an external FW HDD if that will help make things easier, maybe using Time Machine???

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