Stuck in migration assistant

Got a macbook air yesterday with the I-7 processor. I downloaded the new Migration Assistant to the Macbook and connected it to the Air with ethernet via the USB to ethernet adaptor. Proceeded with the migration. All appeared well although slowly until about an hour ago when the progress bar quit progressing. It is stuck at 1 hour 4 minutes to go. This is after 22 hours of transferring data!
The "donor" computer is a Macbook running 10.6.8 and the Air is running Lion which was on the machine when purchased.
What should I do?
TIA
Lewis

Be sure the "donor" hasn't gone to sleep.
Are you using Setup Assistant (when your new Mac first started up), or Migration Assistant (after creating a new user and starting up that app)?

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try this
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HTH
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