Moving files from old macbook pro

so I just purchased a 2010 macbook pro and I want to move all my stuff over to it from my 2006 macbook pro. Both are running 10.6.8. I made a disc image of my macintosh HD on an external drive, now I'm trying to figure out how to get that disc image over to the new computer without completely screwing my "new" computer up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can use Time Machine rather than a disk image to migrate everything from your old MBP to the new one. Otherwise, manually copy what you need from the external hard drive to the newer MBP.

Edit: And please do not cross post. Post to one forum and continue with that thread. Your cross post to the "Other Hardware" forum has been removed.

I have absolutely no experience using time machine. I already created a disc image, but if I use time machine can I only transfer what I want to transfer like my music? am I able to plug in the drive to the new macbook and "re-load" all my user information? my passwords and bookmarks?

Time Machine will transfer everything over unless you selectively exclude what you don't want. It's probably easier to move things over manually as I suggested above.

And we don't want to use Migration Assistant, an app built specifically for this purpose, because ...