Problems setting up SSD in Mountain Lion - Cannot clone

Hello,
I have tried Carbon Copy, and I continue to get the lovely '?' folder when booting. I partition the drive before transfering everything over with CCC, but still doesn't work.
I have tried to restore the drive using Disk Utility, but I get the error on the size not being large enough. Which I partitioned down the original drive to match the drive of the SSD.
I'd like to just put my new drive in the machine and have it be like my old drive.
Can somebody save me?!
Machine;
Macbook Mid-2009 w/ 160 HD
New Drive;
Crucial 500 120GB SSD
I have my drive adapter and everything is plugged up.
Any ideas?

(Image included)
I have it partitioned as a GUID and set as (journaled)
The retore through Disk Utility gave me the size error, which was odd, as I made sure to have plenty of space on the new drive. (160HDD to 120SDD) Since this did not work, I attempted to resize the partition, which shrunk it down to 120HDD, and even that didn't work.
I am now working on CCC to try and clone everything over, but it is acting a bit goofy. I have updated the OS as it recommended, then cloned it after that. Right now it is acting strange and not booting to the drive while pressing 'C' on reboot. (I have not installed it into the Macbook, as of yet)
I'm jealous of those that had the easy 'Restore' option. haha
Note: Attempted to repair the disk, and it failed. Attempted to choose it as the start-up, wouldn't show it.
Joyous time I am having.
Thank you for all your help!

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