How do I transfer "Plays" from iTouch to new iTunes

Over the holidays, I received a new laptop with Windows 7: 64bit. I copied my entire iTunes library from my old desktop tower (still running on XP)
using a portable hardrive.. All the files had transferred just fine, but all the playlists and "Plays" were left behind. I'm fine with recreating the playlists, but several of them are "smart" playlists and rely on the Plays value as a determinant for inclusion.
Plausible solutions and their failures:
1) I thought Home Sharing would share the Plays value, but the connection was refused on my XP computer. I run a diagnostic and it detects internet but something is blocking it. Firewall allows iTunes and no other settings were intenionally changed. It says last known connection was in February, which was around the time I was hit with a virus. Part of the cleanup involved going into system32 to block certain sites, but nothing Apple-related. Could this be preventing connection? I have since forgotten where I go to remove the blocked sites.
2) Simply syncing the iTouch (2nd gen, 16GB) to the W7 computer gives me a warning that the computer library will erase the library on the iTouch. It's all the same songs, but I assume the only change will be the erasure of the Plays values.
3) Exporting a playlist of "Music" from iTouch will export a .txt file with a list of songs that inclused a Plays value for each song. However, importing the playlist simply creates a new list of songs and does not transfer any of the other values.
4) I have not found a way to manually enter a Plays Value, but at this point if that was the only way, I would do it for my entire library.
5) Would transferring the entire set of music to the "Purchased on Mike's iTouch" playlist and then doing a "Sync purchases from Mike's iTouch" work. I did that erlier and it transferred all my apps. Would it transfer Plays?

nicknation wrote:
how about my apps?
music and movies i can do but i am worried about my apps...
You need to copy everything from your old computer to your new one.

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