Strangest thing about FireWire and boot

Some days ago, I bought a new MBP. After installing a fresh copy of Mac OSX Snow Leopard and restoring my backup with Time Machine, everyting seemed right: Facebook recognized a new computer ID and asked me which new name I wanted to use, iTunes made a new scan of the library and so on.
The most important thing, perhaps, was that REFIT was NOT installed nor restored by Time Machine. In fact, as I had asked in this forum (and was succesfully answered), Time Machine does NOT hold the startup.
What's the matter?
I use an external FireWire audio interface (M-Audio FireWire 410) that has to be connected BEFORE turning the MBP on, otherwise it won't work.
So, after restoring with Time Machine and setting up my new MBP, I turned it off, connected the FW audio interface and turned it on.
*** ?!?!? After a couple of seconds, REFIT appeared. Moreover, after the boot was complete, AirPort was off.
This was COMPLETELY EQUAL to the last configuration I had left before turning the FW410 off --> in the OLD MacBook Pro!
I really can't realize WHY a FireWire audio interface is holding something about the boot.
Moreover, another strange thing is that during the next boot (with the FW410 disconnected), REFIT and the same configuration were the same. I repeat, even if the audio interface was not connected.
Can you help and tell me why is this happening?
Thanks in advance!
Tyrexionibus

I mean: 1) Format the hard drive, 2) Reinstall OS X, 3) Reboot, 4) Go on as soon as "Do you want to transfer your data?" "Yes --> from another Mac".
That will work but note the following:
It is Setup Assistant that will appear automatically with the "Do you want to transfer your data?" prompt. It is essentially the same thing as Migration Assistant, except it can only be used once & for this reason you should use it with whichever has most of your user files, your current Time Machine backup or your old MBP. You will then need to manually copy the remaining user files (if there are any) from the other source to the new Mac. This is because Migration Assistant (which you can run more than once) cannot merge two user accounts into one.
This Time Machine option in Setup Assistant is not the same as a Time Machine restore.
Both Setup & Migration Assistant will only work with sources that have a system on them. Neither will work with your new data backup but if required you can manually transfer user files from the backup with Finder.
As you probably already know by now, ReFit & any other partitions it allows you to create will be destroyed if you format the drive. If all of that is working OK now, you do not need to reformat the drive. Just reinstall Snow Leopard as the article describes, or just erase the Snow Leopard partition & otherwise do what you suggest.

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