Transferring apps, data & settings between MBP

My Retina MacBook Pro is on it's way from China!
I have a couple of questions.
What's the best way to move my apps, music, photos, settings from my mid 2009 MacBook Pro to my new MacBook Pro when it arrives.
Once I have everything off my old MacBook Pro, what's the best way to clear it out so that I can sell or give to a family member?
My first thought on Q1 is to make a bootable backup with Carbon Copy Cloner to an external drive from my old MacBook Pro and then restore to the new Retina MacBook Pro.
Would this cause any problems? or is there a migration assistant that would move everything over.
For Q2, can I just format the drive in the old MacBook Pro and then run the Mountain Lion install up to the point of setting up iCloud? Or is there a better way to do this?
Thanks!

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Hi, conran.
If you have a true "clone" (bootable duplicate) of your original hard drive on the LaCie that was made with a proper Backup and Recovery Utility, and the LaCie is a FireWire drive, then you'll want to use the Setup / Migration assistant to restore your former accounts, apps, data, preferences, etc. from the clone to your iBook and its new hard drive. This approach can copy everything from the clone except the OS, and, as you note that your iBook should return with a fresh copy of Mac OS X 10.4.7 installed, you don't want to overwrite that by "cloning the clone" back to the iBook using the Backup and Recovery utility you employed to make the clone.
See "Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4: Transferring data with Setup Assistant / Migration Assistant FAQ." See also this page describing the new Setup Assistant.
In this case, you'd connect — via FireWire cable — and power-on the LaCie to your iBook. The iBook will probably start up to the Setup Assistant. Select "Transfer information from another Mac" when prompted. Then (here's the trick), when prompted for "How you would like to migrate?" select "From another volume on this Mac." In the next window, select your LaCie FireWire drive. Then continue to follow the prompts.
As FYI, if it does return with 10.4.7 installed, be sure they include a copy of the Tiger Install DVD. Otherwise, you won't have a bootable disc from which you can run Disk Utility, presuming the install discs that came with your iBook have Mac OS X 10.3.8 or earlier on them. See: "Only use Mac OS X 10.4-compatible disk utilities with Mac OS X 10.4 volumes."
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My HDD is broken, I will change it and I have to reinstall iTunes on my computer.
I use Windows XP Pro (sorry!) and I can access to all data which were on my old HDD (I did a ghost before the crash).
Could you tell me which is the best way to restore all App and Data which were in iTunes?
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Now I have a shiny new MBP and I want to add the music on the external hard drive (which seems to be read-only when connected to the MBP, any idea's why?) to my itunes library, but I want to retain all the information from my original library on my PC's C drive (particularly as I only have about half the songs "checked" for syncing with my ipod, more on which in a sec!).
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