Migrating from G5 iMac to new Macbook

I have an assortment of issues that need answers but I'll be as brief as possible.
I have a new Macbook that I wanted to be able to install my iTunes library on. Part of my problem probably stems from my impatients because I didn't wait untill I had the proper cables to set up and migrate from my iMac G5 on the initial start up of the Macbook.
So I created a new user account on the Macbook and did all the updates. Since my iTunes library is on an external hard drive I thought I could just load it from there. It worked but none of my info (ratings, comments, dates, etc..) were there. The next day I picked up an ethernet to ethernet cable and decided to migrate the info using the migration assistant. It worked but then I had two user accounts for myself and a library in each, the one in the new user account was still lacking the track info.
It's not a small library and it was taking up more memory on my Macbook than I thought it should so deleted the library in the new user account, it fixed the memory issue but, the library in my old user account could no longer locate the files. I tried to start over from the begining with little success.
So here are my questions
1) How do I get back to square one on the Macbook?
2) Is it(digital rights management crap)that is causing me trouble or the fact that my files are on an external hard drive that is keeping me from successfully migrating the info?
3) All I really want is to be able to sync my iTunes library on the Macbook with my Imac iTunes library, the rest of the stuff from the user accounts on the iMac are fine staying where they are. How do I do this?
Thanks

If I do that will my library be accessable on the macbook without the external hard drive?

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