External HDD is NTFS, How to Convert So iMac can Write?

I ripped a lot of music on this external hard drive via my WinXP PC, before I got my iMac. When I switched the drive over to my iMac recently, I found that I can READ it but I CANNOT WRITE to it. This is interfering in a lot of fuctions via iTunes and writing GET INFO to my albums. Also, I would like to be able to store new information on the external drive from projects on the iMac.
I guess my question is: Is there a utility to convert my external NTFS drive to something the iMac can read/write to without destroying my data? Or do I just need to copy everything to the iMAC, then reformat the external drive and then copy everything back?
Thanks for all the advice!
Holly

If you want to use it as is, and write to it, all you need is MacFUSE plus 3G.
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23729/macfuse
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24481/ntfs-3g
Or there is Paragon drive $29
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/34187
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x
Find downloads here:
http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?starget=mu&keywords=NTFS&arch=all&os=macosx
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-windows-par tition-on-mac-os-x.html
If you want to use it on Mac, I would backup, change the drive table from MBR to GPL and use HFS+ to preserve metadata, time stamp and work with Spotlight and backups.

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