Roaming profiles to local - best method, least downtime?

We need to convert/move a few users who are currently using roaming profiles AND home folders on XP workstations to local profiles on Win7 workstations but the home folders can be kept. The Home folders are on a share on a domain server as are the roaming profiles which are kept on that same server just a different share. What is the best way to do this while minimizing downtime?

[What we've done in the past is, remove the user's PC so that no changes can be made during this transition by the user, then copy all the data from the local PC to a temporary location while logged in as them (which basically copies the data from the roaming profile server share...right?), then, on a newer Win7 machine, copy that data back from the temporary location to the Win7 machine where it merges the appropriate folders files into the C:\Users directory. Somehow I doubt this is the best method of achieving our goal but so far this has worked.]

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cruwl

Use this:
User State Migration Tool 3.0
Once everything is migrated over have the user log in to the new machine. then disable roaming profiles for the user.