Help with How to permanently store info in the MY Ratings field

Info that I enter into the My Ratings field in iTunes is lost when I remove the songs from the Music Library (iTunes window) or copy my music files to another computer. I don't understand what is going on here or why anyone (at Apple) would design iTunes to work in this way.
I want to know if there is a way to store the My Ratings info in a way that it will reload into the Music Library (iTunes window) and show up with my music in the same way that the artist, album and track names show up when the music files are reloaded into the music library or copied to another computer.
If this issue has been previously addressed somewhere else in the forum, I would appreciate a pointer to the discussion topic for it.

I have found applescripts on the web that I have used to successfully input info into the Category and Description fields....but the data in these fields also disappear once the songs have been removed from the music library
Applescript makes it possible to edit tags which are not editable using the iTunes GUI. However, Applescript sends commands to iTunes, so the tag information is stored the 'iTunes-way'.
All information which is not stored in the tags is stored in the 'iTunes Library' file. Some information, like Ratings, is also stored in the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file and exported song lists.
This article gives some information about the library files, but isn't specific about which information is saved in either file.
I know from experience that ratings re-appear when a song is 'added' to the library by importing it from a previously exported song list (stores information like the 'iTunes Music Library'.xml file). The songs in the list that were already in the library, will not have their ratings changed. Also comments re-appear.
My library is on an external disk and when I switch to another computer, I just copy the 'iTunes Library' file. That retains all information.
If you copy the entire iTunes folder to the same location at another computer, then it works like Shyguy01 said.
M
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