Importing Playlists with play count

I've noticed that you can export a playlist and that it is being saved as a .txt document. The problem is that I can't import it back to iTunes. I like to have play counts on my songs, and that is sort of the point here. I've had U2's Magnificent on repeat all day so far and the play count is now 35 or so. The situation here is that I've been sitting on another computer (Windows XP btw) and I got the song today, so my personal library on my iMac does not have it. So the plan was to keep the play count on the song so when I logged on to my own iMac I could just import the song from my memory stick and then import the playlist to the library. But that does not seem to work..

It's not something I've tried myself, but you could use the following script to add to the play count: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=addorsubtractplaycount
I guess you would first have to read the playlist file you exported to determine what the play count actually is. TextEdit should work.

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