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I totally misunderstood your reply there. Your OP stated you wanted to move your Vista install to the new PC (via cloning), and I took your reply as "I really want to do that and that's why I asked". In other words, I thought you really wanted your Vista install on the new machine, and didn't want w7 (for whatever reason one might have).
Yeah, I think you've seen the light! Sysprep/cloning would have put your old Vista install on your new machine, wiping out whatever was there (w7). There are also potential licensing limitiations to deal with as well.
This may help you with moving (copying) your user data and provide a lttle help in getting programs installed on your w7 machine:
Windows Easy Transfer - Transfer To & From Computers
I've never used it so don't know how well it works. There are a bunch of posts in that tutorial that might be worthwhile to browse through.