I-Tunes, new laptop

Hello,
I am sorry as i am sure it has been posted but i have had a good search and cannot find exactly what i want:
I have an old laptop running on XP and this laptop has got my iTunes how i want it to be - library, playlists, purchases etc...
I want to move the entire library to my new laptop running on Vista. I have tried alot of options suggested in the iTunes help, such as authorizing the computer and using the iPod etc, but i want to transfer the lot to the new computer.
I have a removable external hard drive to do this.
Any help would really be appreciated.
thanks in advance
Steve

Here's how I did it using an external drive. This works fine if you have been using iTunes to completely manage your music and all your songs are in iTunes Music not in different folders. If the songs in your library are not all in the iTunes Music folder you can consolidate them. When you consolidate, any songs in the iTunes Library that are not in the iTunes Music Folder are copied to the Music Folder and the Library is updated to point to those new files. Files already in the iTunes Music Folder have no changes made to them before you transfer iTunes: Copying all your iTunes files to one location - Windows
Attach your external drive and copy over your iTunes folder. Copying the whole folder brings with it the iTunes Music folder and also the iTunes Library (iTunes Library.itl in Windows) database file which holds all the information about your songs (Playlists, Ratings, Play Counts, Last Played, Date Added, etc). You'll get more information including the Folder/File structure in this article: What are the iTunes library files?
When you copy the iTunes folder make sure you put it into the same location on the new computer. This has to be the exact same place, on a PC this would be in \Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\My Music\. When you open iTunes on the new computer it will be the same as on the original one Songs, Playlists, Play Counts, Ratings etc. When I moved iTunes for my daughter I was also using the same version of iTunes, not sure how important that is but it's probably worth keeping them the same.

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