Setting Up New Computer

I have just taken my new iMac out of the box and am beginning to get it set up. I would like to do it right the first time, so would welcome any advice. I find that I have a couple of days to plan and prepare as I was surprised to learn that my (old) 6 pin Firewire is incompatible with my new machine. I have ordered a 9 pin adapter so that my Firewire will connect.
My old machine is an iMac G4 with OSX10.4.11. I have had it since it was Apple's best iMac. It is getting long in the tooth, but still runs fine. I have a lot of documents written in Applework 6 and the version of Microsoft Word, spread sheets prepared in Microsoft Excel. I use Quicken 5 to track financial information. And AOL software to be able to connect to America on Line for e-mail. I would like to move everything from my old machine to the new, but don't want to do anything dumb in the process.
I am familiar with making the transfer from hard drive to hard drive with the Firewire connection. But a couple of questions: When I transfer the hard drive information from the G4 to the new machine will all of the applications go as well such that everything will work on the new machine just as it did on the old? Or in the case of Quicken, for example, must I first go back and install the basic program from the Quicken software disk? Will my AOL software transfer to the new machine such that I only need click the desktop icon to do what I have always done with AOL? Or must I download the AOL installation program and reinstall? I bought the latest version of Microsoft Office to install on my new machine. Should that be installed before? or after? transferring files made up with the older version of Microsoft Office that I got when I got my G4?
And a question about Internet Explorer: I have had IE for Mac on my G4. I haven't used it much lately since it doesn't seem to work as good on my G4 as Safari or Firefox. I know that IE for Mac is now long out of date and no longer even supported by Microsoft, but it is still available. Is it worthwhile/advisable to transfer ..... or download ...... IE for Mac? Is this new iMac and/or OSX 10.6.5 able to use any other version of IE? If so which?

Yes the new firewire requires more pins; but it's also faster. And at least you can get an adapter to use the old firewire. Even if it wasn't you could still use ethernet.
I've had mix successes migrating IE. I would suggest before migrating your information to the new computer; to open IE and export your bookmarks as an HTML file. that way after migration you can import the bookmarks into safari or firefox.
after migration, if IE dose not open, you could also install parallels with windows to run IE inside inside of windows. BUT there really no reason to go through all this added work if safari or fire fox works fine.
If you use migration assistant; witch is on your old computer and new computer. Migration assistant will offer to move your user applications, documents, user accounts, and other files over to the new computer. When you boot the new computer for the first time it will offer to transfer your information from another mac.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3322 outlines the processes. If you look at ht3322 you will see at the bottom there is a link to http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1963 witch basically says some programs migrated will not work.
AOL, your better off downloading and installing the latest version. If you need AOL to connect to the internet. I would suggest downloading the installer on the old computer. so when you use migration assistant it's there; and ready to go on the new computer.
Office, you can install after using migration assistant. Just remember to do it.
You might want to consider getting iWorks. iWork opens allot of the old applework's document. I apple works seems to seems to work fine for me after migration, but some of my friends it didn't work. Even if applework works, long term you should really consider porting those documents to iworks or office. That way you can continue to opening the documents for many years to come.
I don't know if quicken 5 will work. Even if it dose; you might want to upgrade quicken. Some times the longer you wait to upgrade; the harder it becomes to upgrade.
If you look at, http://quicken.intuit.com/support/articles/getting-started/upgrading-and-convers ion/7629.html , the document outlines upgrading quicken to the latest version. Basically it says you make a copy of the data file for quicken, and then run the migration program of the copy of the file. The document doesn't not say if there are any versions of quicken that the upgrade program can not upgrade.
Or you may want to consider ibank.
I hope that helps; and con-grads on the new computer.

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