New MBP, old hard drive

I recently replaced my two-year-old MacBook Pro with a new one. I took the old hard drive (which was not stock -- 320 GB, 7200 rpm) out of the old machine and into the new. Ever since then, random operations result in the spinning beach ball. It can take 15-25 seconds to do simple things like scroll up a page in Safari, open an email preview in Mail, or switch applications.
I'm wondering if I've created a Frankenstein's monster, where the old hard drive doesn't know how to communicate with the new hardware? Disk Utility reports the drive is fine, so I'm thinking it might be an OS issue. I ran the 10.5.8 combo updater again, and my build went from 9L30 to 9L31a, but the slowness persists.
I'm figuring I have three options:
- Reinstall Leopard from the original disc;
- Put the new MBP's original hard drive in an external case, boot from that, and use File Migration to copy the files from my old internal drive; or
- Upgrade to Snow Leopard.
Do any of these sound like they'll be effective and practical? What other solutions can you recommend?

As you stated, your problem is likely due to hardware drivers internal to the OS - your old HD and OS is using drivers not designed for the new machine.
I don't know of a miniprep type utility for OS X (in case you are not familiar with, miniprep is a Windows utility that strips machine specific drivers and other configuration info from the OS, and forces discovery and installation)
I would perform a backup, clean install the OS, then use migration assistant to move data, accounts, and programs. I would be careful with "machines settings" as that may or may not move an old driver.

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