Transfer System Folder/Apps to new hard drive?

I just got another G5 because my old one has some corrosion problems. My new one has 2 hard drives a 160GB and a 1TB drive. In my old G5 was a 80GB HD which I do not trust but I would like to use the System folder with all my Applications from it in the new one. Is there an way to get my old System Folder from the 80GB with all my Applications to copy and work on one of my new drives??
Installing all my old applications would be a real pain.

Use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder or a program such as SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate the existing Mac OS X installation to another drive or partition.
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