How to transfer playlists?

I just bought a new mac and transfered all my music from my old machine just by dragging the contents of my old itunes library from the external HD I used for my old computer right into itunes. All my music is there but I need to get my old playlists over. I tried replacing my new computer's iTunes Music Library.xml with the one from my old computer but that doesn't work. It would be extremely tedious to create these playlists again from scratch. Is there a way to establish them from the old computer?

Take a look at the links below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3322
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11071897
http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html

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