dude you dont have to buy new pups. you can like raise and lower the pickups to get a different sound, or screw/unscrew the pole pieces.. but its harder to screw around with the pole pieces than to 'find your tone'.

i'm sayin if you liked the sound of your old ibanez and they had ibanez pickups then changing pickups won't solve your tone quest.. but you might have to change em if they're not the same type of pickups.