Can I transfer all my music from Mac to PC using external flash drive?

I have an iMac with OS X (about 1000 songs in itunes) and a click-wheel 20G ipod, but the ipod got corrupted and died. Apple gave me a new one, which I haven't touched yet, but I've since gotten a new computer, a PC running XP. I bought a 16G flash drive to transfer my library from the imac to PC, but don't know how. I dragged and dropped my itunes library onto a 16B flash drive, but now my new PC won't recognize the library. Should I use my new ipod to transfer everything? I don't want to format my new ipod for my mac if I'm ultimately going to only use my PC.

Thank you. Yes, I dragged the folder onto the drive, but I didn't go through the "consolidate library" first as shown in that article. I don't have a cd burner. When I plug the drive into my pc, it recognizes the drive (E:), but not the files on it. There are 4 different files (itunes library, ds store, trashes, and itunes music) but they are all showing up as invalid file types. Is it something with the drive?

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