Ok, you as well as me, the thing that is the most baffling is that you have had this info transfer before, it transfers without me thinking about it or doing anything special on my phones.... before they were ever rooted (my og droid was rooted and I only just recently rooted my Razr. All my other droids, I never rooted). Why it is not doing it now is crazy??? I am stubborn and this is baffling the he** out of me. It should be able to happen without rooting your old phone. I wonder if there is something blocking it with the new phone. Before rooting, here is my final suggestion:
Take the sd card out of the new phone and do a factory data reset on the new phone. Let's get that back to stock without any old data conflicting with new data that we want to take effect. Activate your old phone. Check to make sure the wifi access and keycodes are all there. On your old phone, do a backup to google and do a backup using MyBackup. Make sure MyBackup is backing up to the sd card (the backups will be listed in a folder labeled "rerware." Shut down old phone, activate new phone with sd card in place. See what happens.
Take the sd card out of the new phone and do a factory data reset on the new phone. Let's get that back to stock without any old data conflicting with new data that we want to take effect. Activate your old phone. Check to make sure the wifi access and keycodes are all there. On your old phone, do a backup to google and do a backup using MyBackup. Make sure MyBackup is backing up to the sd card (the backups will be listed in a folder labeled "rerware." Shut down old phone, activate new phone with sd card in place. See what happens.