How would I move the iphone backup from a mac to a pc and do a full restore so I don't lose my settings?

Hello,
I am moving from a mac to pc (i know, not many people do this, but it's for work) and I would like to transfer my itunes library with all of the iphone backups, playlist, playcounts, etc. over.  Can I restore my iphone backups from the mac on the pc?  How would I do that?  How would I make sure all of my metedata for itunes is transferred properly as well?
Thanks much,
Colin Lancaster

It shlould. here is a link to a comment from someone who seems to know a bit more about it than me ;-) https://discussions.apple.com/message/15674328#15674328

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