Restoring music from a cloned bootable hardrive?

Hi, I am in the process of getting ready in upgrading from tiger to snow leopard.
I have already cloned my current internal hard drive using super duper into an external usb drive, in case the upgrade doesn't work.
As I want to do a clean install of snow leopard, that means all my data on my hard drive will be gone.
I was wondering whether I could use the cloned external usb drive (os x tiger) to restore files such as itunes, imovies etc just by simply inserting the usb drive and drag and drop the songs into the new internal drive (snow leopard).

[iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449]
but I find the link below more helpful:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive

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