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If it works, it works, so congratulations, but you are lucky that the new computer booted at all. Your technique loads a bunch of drivers that were not intended for the new motherboard. If you added new drivers, fine, but are you sure that you got rid of all the old ones? Had you loaded XP from scratch, you wouldn't have to worry about creating an unstable system.

Also, it is legal for you to transfer the old XP installation to a new computer only if you have a retail license for XP, which costs about twice as much as an OEM license. If the old computer is a typical Dell or HP, then it probably has an OEM license. I only bring this up because you do not mention the type of license on the original computer. I have heard of people talking their Microsoft reps into letting them transfer one OEM license to a new computer, but Microsoft is under no obligation to do that, it specifically violates their OEM End User License Agreement.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

Thanks for the tip on Clonezilla. The last open-source imaging program I tried was an old version of Mondo Rescue, that was flaky enough to justify my purchase of Acronis TrueImage Workstation and Workstation Echo.