Any way to transfer a large library from Mac over to PC ??

My iMac G5 is on the verge of dieing. Apple gave me a new midplane board last year, but now it seems I'm also blessed with a bad power supply and/or capacitors. Worse yet, this cropped up a couple of months past the "sorry we sold you a defective product" warranty period. I don't know if I'm going to be able to talk Apple into repairing it or not - and to be honest, I don't currently have enough funds to replace it. So, if Apple won't fix what was broke to start with, I'm 100% crap out of luck.
My question - my wife has a large iTunes library she uses for her dance studio. It's somewhere in the vicinity of 80 to 90 gigs worth of music. Is there any way I can easily transfer this library over to one of my PCs as a backup so it's not lost? I'm not sure how many more times the iMac will even turn on at this point, and the next time it boots up I'd like to be able to do something to keep from losing her library, which I'd consider to be irreplaceable.
Suggestions?
Wish me luck when I call Apple support next week. Hopefully they'll have pity on me for all the problems I've had with this iMac and send me the replacement parts I need!

This article in Apple's knowledge base should give you some ideas.
Best of luck.

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