Help with saving my itunes attributes

Ok. i resecntly got a fifth gen ipod, and i love it. The itunes is great. User friendly and i can customize everything. i love it. but i do have 1 concern that needs an answer.
i'm running a computer that was pretty much a mailorder pc taht started out on WIn 98 se, fat32 system. i upgraded to xp about 2 years ago. anyway, SO i have my library on an external hardrive, so losing my info isnt really my worry. BUT i do have all the songs just a certain way (compilations, shufle/no shuffle, gapless play, so on) and tehre are some mp3s on my hardrive that i dotn want in teh library... but i still want on teh hardrive (my ipod right now is sitting at about 50 gigs).
anyway, about 2 or 3 weeks ago i got hit with akiller virus with spam popups from ****. so i just re-formatted it and started over, well, i saved teh itunes library as a xml file AND as the itunes library file. well, when i loaded it on the new computer, it showed all the attributes, it shoed all teh mp3s.... it just had no idea of where they were. lol. so i wouldve had to have gone thorugh and refind each and every one of my 14000 mp3s. (now theres a slight, slight chance that my external hardrive might have been turned off when i tred this, but i doubt it).
now, this crap is back again, but i have pinpiointed the source of it. so i wil no longer be doing hose online activities, but i'd like to format it one more tiem to have a fresh start. NOW is there anyway that i can save all teh attributes and the file paths and everything so i can just load in the xml file and just have my library be exactly as it was? or will i have to start all over from scrath, drag and drop my mp3 folder with my personal defined prefences not yet set???
ALSO, with teh files i bought off itunes, i had to have those files re-authorized, and now i'm down to 3 more authorizations... they are on teh external hardrive, same hardrive, same computer. is there anyway to have it not do that next time?
and one more thing... I bought mine on valentines day, 2007, with a serial 8l7022g9v9r... do i have a fifth gen? or a 5.5 gen?
thanks!
-keith
homemade   Windows XP Pro   usb external 80 gb hardrive

This may answer your question.
Buegie's complete back up strategy.
It shows how to back up the files that contain playcounts/ratings etc.
"i had to have those files re-authorized, and now i'm down to 3 more authorizations... they are on teh external hardrive, same hardrive, same computer. is there anyway to have it not do that next time?"
Before you make any major changes to your computer, de-authorize it.
See: About Authorization and Deauthorization.

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