Problems upgrading to SL on new iMac

I have a new iMac 24; came with Leopard. I have spent a week trying to upgrade to SL. The problem is that every time it boots after the upgrade I get only to the spinning wheel at startup (not beachball, but the gear-looking thingy) and it just hangs there permanently. (I had 10.5.8 on previous, fully updated.) I am using an upgrade DVD.
After countless hours, I have narrowed it down somewhat. I can get it to boot after a clean install, but after using the Migration assistant it once again goes into its death mode. I have narrowed down the problem to the "Applications" migration; i.e., I can install SL, migrate Users, prefs, docs, and then I can reboot under SL no problem. But if I migrate Applications, it boots with the permanent spinning wheel.
So now my goal is to figure out exactly which file(s) is causing this problem. I am looking through the log files but there are a lot of them and I'm not exactly sure where I should look. (I copied some log files via Terminal to another drive while starting up from the DVD.)
Any ideas/suggestions? thanks

Look at these incompatibility lists: [(1)|http://snowleopard.wikidot.com>, [(2)|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258], and [(3)|http://www.macintouch.com/specialreports/snowleopard/slcompat.html]. You may find one or more of your apps on one or more of the lists. If so, then it/they may be your problem apps, and I wouldn't install it/them. Also, at this point, I would just reinstall the apps that you decide are OK.

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