Problem copying onto new hard drive...help!!

I bought a new Seagate Momentus 320gb for my MBP, and also got one of these Newtech Drive Adapters to connect it to the MBP for formatting and to transfer from the existing drive, however I made a mistake and used the Leopard Install disc instead of Snow Leopard. I replaced the MBP drive with the new one, installed Snow Leopard successfully, and used Nigration Assistant to transfer the old drive contents onto the new one, but I can't find my music, iTunes or Garageband, mail, network and Firefox settings, licence codes etc.. I'm really stuck, I've made a complete mess of things, any help appreciated, thanks.

Not sure if this will be much help, but I have heard of problems using Migration Assistant with Intel Macs. Here is a link that might help:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
Is all your stuff still intact on the old drive in the enclosure? Does that drive have Snow Leopard on it? If so, you might just be able to clone the old drive to the new one using Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
You can download either one and try it out for free. If you want to unlock some of Super Duper's more useful features like Smart Update, you can register a copy for $28. CCC is donation ware.
A clone would be an exact copy of your old drive, so your Mac would be exactly as it was before, only with a new and presumedly bigger drive.
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