Selling wife's mac - how to move all her stuff to sub-account on my iMac?

Selling wife's MacBook - how do I move all her stuff to sub-account on my iMac, so that when she logs into her user account, it looks and feels exactly like she was on her MacBook? Needs to sync her iPad to her own library of apps & music, needs to have her documents lined up in the exact folder structure, her photos in iPhoto, etc... basically, logging into her user account on my iMac needs to feel to her exactly like she was using her MacBook. iMac and MacBook are both running 10.6.6. I've found discussion forums about how to move stuff from user folders around on the same computer, how to restore a hard drive from a backup... not sure how to do the specific move I'm talking about here. I'm basically trying to take an entire harddrive backup and make it into it's own user account on a different machine.
I've started by running a backup through SuperDuper. What next? Any ideas? Thanks!

Shutdown the MacBook, connect it to the iMac via Firewire, and start it up holding down the t key.
If you don't have a firewire cable to connect the two, you can do it over the network, it will just be slower.
On the iMac, run Migration Assisstant and migrate her account from the MacBook to your iMac. Just migrate her user account. MA will create an identical copy of her account on your iMac.
You could also migrate from the clone you made with SuperDuper.

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