Installing Tiger....How to back up Itunes Library?

I'm installing tiger today and I want to do a clean install so I'm backing up everything onto an ext hd. What is the best way to back up my itunes library so that when I put it back on my computer after tiger, the new itunes on my new os will recognize it?

If you are using an external firewire drive, I'd install Tiger on your external drive, use the Migration Assistant to copy your files from your mac to the external drive, verify everything transferred correctly.(You could boot from the external drive to see how everything looks/data is there)
Do a clean install on your Powerbook, and use the Migration assistant to copy all of your data from your firewire drive to your Mac.
Just a thought.... (I just did it recently!)
Or, if you have an iPod, this may help: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173

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