How move music & vid to my other computer?

scenario: at MacWorld Expo i bought an iPod video; using my 15" AlPB i bought several tv shows from the ITMS and enjoyed watching them on the flight home. Now I want to consolidate that newly purchased video and a couple songs i bought on the PB, on my "main" computer, my desktop.
When I hooked the iPod vid up to the PB it downloaded onto the iPod the vids and about 400 songs that were on that computer; i've got about 1600 songs (mostly but not entirely duplicates of the 400) on the desktop 'puter. When I hooked the iPod up at home those 1600 songs replaced what WAS on the iPod.
How do i "merge" the two computers' songs and vids (there's a music vid already on the desktop computer, too) so that everything is on the desktop computer, and for ease of use, it's all in the same place on the PB, too?
thanks
terry

ok, i consolidated each library on its respective
computer. I then used target mode to mount the
powerbook on the desktop of the G5. I copied the
iTunes Music folder from the G5 to the powerbook.
That was incorrect. You should have:
1) Copied the files you want to add to any arbitrary folder on the destination machine.
2) file->addfolder_tolibrary, choosing the arbitrary folder.
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