Can I Export a Gapless Album?

Hi,
I'm a musician who's just wrapping up work on an album of my own music I'd like to make available for download as a single, free, zipped file on my website.
I've got the songs set up with the desired pauses between them as a gapless album in iTunes. Most of the songs go right into the next with a few exceptions. (Adding time to the Options tab's Stop Time parameter seems to do the trick.)
Is there any way to export this album from iTunes? If I just drag the song files onto the desktop, will the Gapless and Stop Time settings be respected?
I haven't figured out a good, objective way to test this.
Does anyone know for sure how this all works?
Thanks.

I don't know for certain, but I suspect that if you export the files as MP3, the whole files will be exported and each individual user would have to choose to make each song Gapless. I doubt the Stop times would be respected in the export.
Are you familiar with the program, Audacity? It's a free, open-source sound editor. Using Audacity (rather than iTunes), you could record and splice your songs (I highlight the portion I want to be a single track and then use File -> Export Selection as MP3). You might have success naming the tracks with track No then name for the sake of the zip file. You'd have to include instructions (a read-me) telling the user to make the files gapless.

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