Will Migration Assistant work with an external drive?

I'm upgrading the hd in my Powerbook and for various reasons have the new drive in an external enclosure. It's got a fresh OS installed and all I need to do now is copy all the data from my old drive that's still in the Powerbook to the new drive in the external enclosure. What's the best way to do this? I know I shouldn't just copy everything over and I got error messages using Disk Images. A friend suggested Migration Assistant but that only seems to want to work with complete computers, not external drives. I've got a G5 in the office too that I can employ if needed.
I want to keep all my settings and prefs intact as I'm told Migration Assistant will do.

As long as the Firewire hard drive is a bootable drive for Mac OS X it should work with the Migration Assistant. These two companies offer that kind of drive:
http://www.macsales.com/
http://www.cooldrives.com/
While it doesn't matter for the machines you quoted, if you choose to migrate to a newer Intel Mac, it won't work. This article explains what to do in that case:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=10
Also, there is no such thing as a "Fresh install". This tip discussions what installation options exist:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614

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