PowerBook to MacBook firewire trouble

(x-posted to PowerBook discussion forum)
I just bought a new MacBook, and the firewire connection to transfer files doesn't complete. I go through the process correctly, and the PowerBook icon pops up on the MacBook's desktop. Disk Utility recognizes and identifies it correctly.
When I click on the icon, the cursor switches to the spinning colourwheel, and the spinning doesn't stop.
If I use Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant, it goes through the process properly but hangs up at "Waiting for disks to appear."
I can't find anyone else with this problem, and Apple's help-line is "researching the problem." Any advice for me?
(And I can't connect the other way, because the Intel disk won't mount on a pre-Intel Mac!!)

Actually I'd found that reference already. It says you can't place the drive from an Intel-driven Mac on a pre-Intel Mac, and I'm having the reverse difficulty. My old Mac isn't showing up properly on the new Mac.
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I took the MacBook into the store I got it from, and they hooked it up without difficulty to a new iMac also running 10.4.7. Prevailing theory: Firewire doesn't want to break the 10.4 barrier. Two machines running 10.4.x can talk to each other. Machines running 10.3.9 and 9.0.8 can talk to each other. One running 10.4.x won't talk to 10.3.9 or to 9.0.8 -- maybe.

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