How to transfer existing Album Art to NEW Computer/iTunes?

Hi guys, I will try to make this simple. I'm going from an iMac to a new macbook. I had hopes of creating a complete clone of my existing itunes library into the new computer...but it seems harder than I expected. Moving the music itself is not a problem. I my "iTunes folder" has always been a seperate folder on an external hard drive. Moving this music from this folder to a new itunes is not hard at all, but in the process I'm losing all info like play count, playlists, and *most importantly, the Album Art that I've spent hours and hours adding to the files in iTunes.* (only a handful of music has transferred with its art, and those were all added previously, not by me, likely not through itunes.
Losing playcounts and playlists I will be able to live with, but I'm hellbent on clean transferring the album art I've manually collected in my previous version of iTunes... please help me figure this out... if you have any questions about my set up just ask
Thank you in advance.

Chris, than you for responding. Let me try to clarify...
My previous "iTunes folder" has always been a folder on an external drive. So when I dropped music into iTunes, it then copies directly to "E:/External Drive/TOTALMUSIC". That's the source/itunes database. So in that folder, as far as I know, there is all my music, and then it gets broken down into "Artists" and then "Albums".
Upon copying this old music into itunes on my new computer, the music transfers fine, but most music loses the Album Art that it shows on my previous computer, while some artwork does actually stay.
Perhaps I need to go into a seperate file on my firt computers actual iTunes folders (not the external database) and copy something from in there and paste that into iTunes folders in the new computer?
To summarize, the music saves to a folder outside of itunes, and I've transferred that music across just fine, but somewhere in the mix I lost a lot of info that I think should be somehow attached to the files. I'm wondering if this information is actually saved seperate from the music files or something? why wouldn't the changes I've made to the artwork through iTunes reflect to the backed up music in its source on the external?
Frustrating!
Thanks again...

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