Transfer from old computer stymied

Just brought my new MacBook Pro home. Started it up, plugged a firewire cable into my old trusty eMac, started up the eMac with the T key pressed, got the firewire transfer image on the eMac screen. Pressed continue on the new MacBook Pro and got the window calculating sizes of my user account, applications folder and so on from the old eMac. The MacBook correctly calculated the size of the applications folder, network settings and folders and so on on my eMac hard disk BUT calculated my user account on the eMac as containing something like 57,000 gig. hence transfer impossible.
As a result I restarted the eMac and repaired permissions, then restarted the emac via a Mac OS X 10.4 DVD and repaired the emac hard disk. That process resulted in telling me the disk was AOK but that the nesting limit of 100 had been exceeded.
I then re-ran the MacBook Pro startup process and started the migration process only to achieve the original result (i.e. 57,000 gig, so transfer button stays grayed out). HELP!!!!
Cheers,
Simon

You will be ahead of the game if you use the Finder to just copy your essential documents, pictures, and music over -- rather than using the migration assistant. And then re-install any applications from their original discs.
Bringing over old settings and apps from a PPC mac is often a source of mysterious problems on an Intel Mac. Just MHO.

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