Please advise - new iMac i7, old iMac G5 PPC, and migration assistant

I just received my new iMac i7 and am getting ready to use Migration Assistant. However, I have some questions:
The logic board on my old machine died, so I pulled out the Hard Drive and put it in an enclosure. This is what I will be using to make the Migration.
My old machine was a PPC, and it was running 10.4.11.
I have read various posts for and against using MA to transfer files and user data between PPC and Intel machines.
I was planning on letting MA transfer everything, and going from there.
Doing it this way, is there really room for MA messing up my new machine?
I have thousands of emails, 80GB of music, 5000 photos, tons of bookmarks, and lots of documents that I'd like to transfer.
I would like NOT to do a manual migration.
Can I safely use MA?
Thanks for all help and advice!

Users migrates files in your user home folder. This is the folder named as your user account short name and has the house icon if you are logged into that user account. So as long as your user files such as Music files, Word documents, etc. are stored in that user home folder, they will be migrated. If you created a folder structure outside the user home folder for some reason, selecting Users will not migrate those folders (because they are not located in your user home folder).
Applications will migrate things in the Applications folder (minus Apple's apps that are already installed). It probably also transfers application-related files at other locations, based on what Migration Assistant knows about and is scripted to do.
Settings will transfer settings from the old Mac to the new Mac, such as hardware and network settings. This is not user data. Since your old Mac is PowerPC, you should set up your Intel iMac independently.
+Other files and folders...+ will transfer files and folders outside your user home folder that Migration Assistant treats as potentially being or having user data. For example, if you had folder called Stuff at the top level of old Macs hard drive volume, that would get transferred. As long as your user data is stored in your user home folder (the house icon), all this will do is transfer random things you do not need cluttering your new iMac. If you know of something that was not stored in your user home folder that did not get transferred, since your old iMac's hard drive is connected as an external drive, you can just use Finder to locate and copy over that something manually.

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