Should I wiat for Snow Leopard to migrate to new disk?

I have a Macbook Pro 13" and had a repair resulting in anew hardrive. Did an erase and install of original Leopard to at least have the machine up to date. My question is that I will be migrating all my info and setting from my Imac's Time Machine to the new disk on the Macbook Pro, which I did when I first bought it a few months ago. Would it be better to wait a day or two--when my Snow Leopard DVD Upadte Disk--will be arriving and then migrate everything over of is it the same as migrating now and then updating the computer when the new OS arrives either tomorrow or Saturday.

Hi, again.
Nobody who's allowed to talk about it knows as of today exactly what's involved in the installation, but all indications are it's not a big deal.
Purely from past experience, however, I always recommend doing major things one step at a time. If you do one right after the other, you multiply the (small) chances of error, and may have no clue about which step caused any problems.
I'd say do the migration first. Start Time Machine (or other) backups immediately. Then use the Mac for a while to be sure everything's kosher.
There are bound to be bugs in Snow Leopard. Probably minor overall, but no major (and few minor) upgrade in the history of the computer has been entirely bug-free. So make sure your Pro is working fine on Leopard, and is properly backed-up, before installing SL.

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