Using Setup Assistant to migrate a 10.4.11 server to a new SL server, and have login panel before hardly anything has happened

We have a 10.4.11 server, running on an antique 1.0GHz G4 Xserve. We have purchased a mac mini server to replace it. The Xserve only runs 3 services: AFP, FTP and Open Directory (Master). (We are considering reconfiguring the new server as an Open Directory replicate to another OD master on the network later.)
I've RAIDed the two disks on the mini and reinstalled the OS. It restarted, went through the language setup, put in the serial number, etc., and got to the "Transfer the information from an existing server" choice. At that point, went and made a SuperDuper dmg of the 10.4.11 on a firewire drive. When that was done, moved the firewire drive to the mini server, it appeared in the box as a choice for migrating from, selected it, and hit "continue." It went through a couple of automatic screens with progress bars -- but it only took maybe 3-5 minutes, and then the machine rebooted. It took nowhere NEAR long enough to have copied the data over -- the clone took nearly 3 hours to create, and it's running through a firewire 400.
So now the machine is sitting there, with the login panel up. The firewire drive with the Xserve's image on it is still plugged in, and the blue light on the front of the drive is flashing like crazy. What the heck? I can't imagine that I should be logging in to the new server if it is in the middle of transferring data over! Is it copying data? If yes, how am I going to know when it's done? If not, what the heck is it doing and what do I have to do to get it to copy the data over?

Called Apple. They said, "Oh, yeah, Setup Assistant doesn't actually work from 10.4 to 10.6" (So WHY don't they fix it? Why don't they take the manual off of the web site?)
Moved on to Plan B. Hooked the firewire drive to a G5 mac. Stuck the 10.5 server disk into the G5, and upgraded the firwire drive to 10.5 server. Booted off of it, changed the IP address and name, upgraded to 10.5.8, tested that our applications all worked. Then hooked the firewire drive back up to the mini, ran through the 10.6 server initialization, and at the end selected the firewire drive as the "source" for “Transfer the information from an existing server”. It went through the same as it did when it was at 10.4 -- did a few quick things and then rebooted and none of the data had transferred.
Now we are at Plan C. Booted the mini off of the server install disk, and tried to upgrade the firewire drive to 10.6. Told us we can't because it needs to be GUID. After saying a few appropriate obscenities, got another firewire drive, formatted it GUID and are now doing a copy from the upgraded-to-10.5 firewire drive to the formatted-GUID drive.
Plan D is to upgrade the new drive to 10.6 server, try to boot the mini off of it, and if it works, use DiskUtility to copy it to the mini's internal RAID.

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Thx

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In any instance, should you run into trouble, you can contact Microsoft or Adobe (or other companies for other software) and they will reset the licenses from their end so you can use the software on your new computer.
By the way, if you use iTunes, you can do something like that from the iTunes Store, where you deauthorize all computers in order to get the old one off the list of authorized computers.

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Use Terminal to delete iTunes:
cd /Applications/
sudo rm -rf iTunes.app/
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