How do I move Photos from PC to Macbook Pro

Hello
Just purchased LR 2 and a new Macbook Pro.  After two weeks, glad I did it, but its about to give me Brain overload.  I've read 4-5 books and watched a dozen videos.
I just installed 2 Ext HDs and want to put my catalog, library on one Ext. HD and Backup on the next.  One of the reasons I havn't used LR 2 yet and reading all these books is, I want to set it right the first time, hoping it will give me few problems in the future.
I've searched these forums, but cannot find a question with my problem.  I'm now going from Lightroom on PC to lightroom on a Mac, or PSE to LR 2.
I'm going from a PC that has all my photos in the My Pictures folder.  Most are Jpegs, a few canon raw. (about 2,000 )
My questions are
1.  When I read to format the Ext HD's to the Macbook, I did and this cleared them out.  No folders or files.  Will LR 2 auto put a folder in each HD called lightroom photos or will I have to do that manually.  If I have to do it, since I'm new to Mac, how do I do that?
2.  I have a third 500 GB Ext HD that I have my music on and I have about 100 gigs blank.  I can move my photos over to this drive on the PC and import them into the mac using LR 2?  Since I havn't started LR 2 yet, I read that I can hold down the "alt" key and the Mac, start LR 2, and it will ask me "where I want to put my catalog.  After I tell it the Ext HD, will it do everything automatic, or will I have to do more setup.
Thanks in advance.
I hope I can get everything set up this week so that I can get back to taking pictures.
Glenn

I did sync thro iTunes so will have to import them where i can find them...yuck
The synced photos should be in an album in the "Albums" tab of your iPod.
As long as you did not transfer  the synced photos to your computer do on no account activate "iCloud Photo Library Beta" on your iPad. That will wipe all synced photos from the iPad.
You can't reimport pictures synced from your computer to your device back to your computer. You can only import pictures in the Camera Roll or Saved Photos from your device to your computer. If you need to retrieve synced photos from your device:
Email them from the device to yourself.
Copy them from the emails to your computer.

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