Migration from 10.4.11 to 10.5.8 Problems

In trying to upgrade to 10.5 on a MacBook Pro 17" - 2.16 GHz Intel, I had problems. Apple genius found I needed a new hard drive. Computer returned from Apple with a new hard drive and OS 10.5.8 and seemed to be working fine (Keyboard and Airport access normal).

I had a recent clone (Carbon Copy Cloner) with OS 10.4.11 that boots and works fine. I used Repair Disk and Repair Permissions on the Clone with OSX 10.4 install disk. (everything seemed ok) I used Repair Disk and Repair Permissions on the clean install using OSX 10.5 install disk. Repair was clean, Repair Permissions continued to show some mismatched permissions after 2 tries (all in parts of the OSX 10.5 clean install with no new apps or files added). NOW MY PROBLEM.

Using Migration Assistant, I brought just my Home Account folder (with a name not used in the clean Install), all the Apps, Files and Folders, (Library was checked and grayed out) with all Network Settings, Time Zone, and Shared Settings. The Migration seemed to go well. I booted up and it seemed OK. I opened Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Powerpoint and put them in the Doc. I did the same for Microsoft Work, Excel, and Powerpoint. All seemed normal. I needed to go to the Internet and found that I could not. Airport could not see my networks. It seemed to be OFF and not want to accept the Turn Airport ON click. I rebooted my network modem and Airport Extreme and rebooted the computer. This time the Keyboard wouldn't work - a problem I had earlier when I tried to install 10.5 directly onto my 10.4.11 computer.

I attached an external keyboard. After identifying it, all works fine from the external keyboard. However, Airport still doesn't turn on. The migration also seems to have seriously changed things in my Network Settings - even hardwired - and won't let me get to the internet even hardwired to my cable modem. If I go back and boot up on the 10.4.11 clone, all works well.

Using the 10.5 install disk, I tried Repair Disk, but my volume could not be unmounted. I did Verify Disk and the volume appeared to be OK. I Repaired Permissions and I get hundreds of "Group differs" for Application Support with hp plug-ins (I use an HP multi-function) - "should be 80, group is 20". There were also "Permissions differ" with what appears to be the same issues I had on the clean Install - /"Airport Base Station Agent.app", "Airport utility", Front Row", "Private Frameworks/Back Row.Framework", "ITunes.app", . It comes back "Permission Repair Complete". A follow-up Permissions repair, showed no problems and reported "Permissions Repair Complete."

When I bootup on the 10.5.8 OS, I still can't use the keyboard and can't get to either Airport or a hardwire connection to my cable modem. Back to the clone, it's all fine, but might need either (a connection to a neighbors network) or a reboot of my cable modem to get a valid IP address.

Is there anything else I can do to try to repair this besides a clean install of OS10.5? Either Migration Assistant did a corrupt migration or I have some 3rd party app(s) that are incompatible.

If I do a Clean Install, how can I best bring all the files from the Clone over to 10.5 without having to reinstall each one and track down the all the Serial Numbers (many on e-mails from years back)? Is there a list somewhere of 10.5 incompatibilities? Maybe I just need to erase or upgrade a file or two on the clone and the Migration will be a success. I have also heard that there may be issues with various Versions of 10.5.X that could make one work and then next upgrade not work. How do I even find the old revisions. Do I need to upgrade one at a time?

I really want to use 10.5, because it allows me to use some other recent updated software for work that would be helpful.

GOD BLESS CARBON COPY CLONER. I THINK IT'S TIME FOR ME TO DONATE.

Can anyone help me through this?

Thanks,
Dave