How to move entire library from one computer to another w/ external hd

I want to move all of my music to a new mac I purchased without losing my ratings, playlists and playcounts. All of my music is on an external harddrive. Do I just plug the external harddrive into my new mac and then just drag the entire music folder from the external into itunes? It seems to me like doing this will result in losing all of my playlists ratings and playcounts. Does anyone know if I can remedy this by exporting the xml from my old mac and then dropping that in itunes on my new mac and also changing the location of my music folder in the preferences pane of itunes on my new mac? Thanks for any help or suggestions.

If you have any problems with the library in the new account you might have to download and run BatChmod on the library to reset the ownership and permissions to the new account owner for all of the files in the library.  User the settings shown in the screenshot below:
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For Owner use the owner name for that account.  If the account uses a different Group then use it also.  You can find the group name by seleting a file in your other account and typing Control+i to bring up the Info window.  The ownership and group will be shown near the bottom.
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    http://osx.tribe.net/thread/08fd0e5e-f1d0-450b-8de5-9f7cb5bd278d
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