ITunes Library relocation from mac to windows

Hi All,
So my 3 year old iMac G5 died about a week ago (failed logic board). I wanted to know if i can relocate my itunes library to my windows machine. Now, i've copied the entire library to the win-doze and did the "new library" feature by holding the shift button on itunes start up. I've also opened the XML file with a text editor and changed all the old "Mac" directory addresses to match the new library location. Now this worked for about 90% of the 70GBs of music but i've notice that some songs are missing. I guess i'm looking for a cleaner way of doing this. Thanks

See the following: Macworld - How to transfer iTunes libraries between PC and Mac and Geek to Live- How to move an iTunes library from a PC to Mac (and back).

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