OK, I fed my mac a cup of coffee yesterday on Southwest Airlines yesterday and you know the rest of the story. What should I do ? It's an older pro with Tiger OS and this is my first attempt at using a forum to solve problems.

Spilled a cup of coffee on my Macbook Pro. Sure don't want to lose my stuff. Any suggestions? It's an old Tiger OS

Turn off the machine, remove the battery.
Extract the hard drive and use a IDE/SATA to USB adapter, connect it to your new Mac setup with the same user named account and transfer your files off.
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
10.4 era issued machines have little value, not worth fixing, so dump it. Congrats on getting a nice long life out of it, it's rare to see that around here anymore.
I don't think Migration or Setup Assistant is going to work for such a older machine, 10.4 to 10.7 leap is rather large, I wouldn't risk it, none of the 10.4 software will work in 10.7 anyway.
So copy off files manually and do the best you can.
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