Transferring Certain iPad/iPhone Data from MBP to a new MBA

Hello:
Long story short is I have a new iPad and an iPhone 4s currently synced to my late 2009 MBP. I will be selling this machine here this week after doing a clean install of Lion and am trying to find a working solution to transfer just my iTunes data (device backups, device data, all apps and their data) to my newer MBA in as painless a manner as possible.
I know migration assistant will tranfer all applications and settings over from a time machine backup by my current MBP is extremely overcrowded with applications and software that I'm looking to "start fresh" on the air and would just like the iTunes data (not to mention the available internal space on my Air's SSD won't accomodate all the applications currently on my Pro. I have had my MBA for several months so it is essentially already set up I'm just trying to get the iTunes library data (primarily the iPhone and iPad specific things) over to the MBA somehow.
I'm trying to avoid the "this device is currently synced to an old machine and all current data will be deleted if you sync to this machine, do you want to proceed?" messages. I have no problem temporarily wiping the devices out so long as I can do a restore on them (IE somehow get the phone and iPad backup files from my old computer transfered and have them work on my new MBA)
I haven't been using the cloud for backups prior. I can turn this feature on to get a cloud backup but will the cloud backup then transfer my apps and data from the cloud into my MBA or will they just stay in the cloud?
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Of course - have a scan of this http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive

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