Dead laptop - need to transfer iTunes to new one

Our IT guy spilled water on my laptop and POOF it's gone. Hard drive saved tho.
Have new laptop and want to be able to transfer my iTunes from the other laptop to this one, maintaining my playlists, etc.
I do NOT have an iPod. And my music is all on a external drive. Also, old laptop was XP Pro and new laptop is 7 pro.
Ideas?

Some IT guy.
Depending how far you want to go to preserve everything.
The keep everything and spend a bit of money way:
Depending on the type of HDD you have you can get a connector that plugs directly into the HDD and the other end plugs into a USB slot. The computer will recognise it as a normal drive then you just copy all the iTunes stuff back to your main computer.
Or alternatively you could use what you have on your backup drive and copy that to the main iTunes folder.

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See this User Tip for an alternative approach.
Use SyncToy to create a clone of your library on an external hard drive.
Connect the drive to the new computer, install SyncToy again and use the Sync option to copy the library in the other direction.
(ideally before installing iTunes so you don't have to remove an empty library or run the risk of it corrupting your backup.)
Update the backup periodically to guard against disaster in the future.
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I almost forgot - there are great service manuals available from here:
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