hi first i would like to say thank you to a truly nice people here

i have a mac system due to a lost bag on a trip my orginal install dvds for most all of my software were lost
i bought a 2 tb firewire 800 external hard and drive genius 2 from other world computing for my 24 inch imac

i guess my question is i have a machine which all my software is on
cs4 master collection final cut 2, apertaure 2 and many valued programs are on

i want to i bought 17 inch macbook pro and 1tb firewire 400 drive for my notebook
how i copy programs from mac to another
or do i clone the hd to an external

the best advice you could offer is much needed i am new to moving software and copying hard drives
any help greatly appericated