Changing computer that syncs apple tv w/out having to delete all media

I just bought a new computer and want to use the new computer to sync without having to erase and recopy everything on the apple tv, which would take days given the amount of media I have. All of the media that I have on itunes and sync with my Apple TV is located on a network drive so I'm looking for a way to just reroute the Apple TV to the new computer. Switching itunes was as simple as copying the library file onto my new computer and mapping the network drive with the same letter as my old computer. Is there an analogous way of rerouting the new apple tv to my new computer?

Be very careful doing this!! I followed the advice of apple tech support in changing computers and it erased everything on my apple tv. Lucky for me it was still on the old computer, so I re-sync it back to the old computer running xp pro and everything is back to normal. There is a conflict with vista 64 bit operating systems right now running itunes. The problem maybe the same with windows 7 64bit aswell. Right now I am syncing apple tv to the old computer, then syncing to an ipod using the old computer, then hooking up the ipod to the new computer and transfering the purchases to the new computer for now. For some reason my computer will not detect apple tv(and yes, it is set to detect apple tv in my home network). Only my old one with xp pro and my sons laptop running xp home will detect it.

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