Itunes migration from old XP PC to new Vista PC - whilst retaining content

Hi there,
I've just received a new laptop, and I'm performing the tiresome migration of data from one machine (running XP and itunes 7.5.0.20) to another (running Vista Basic and itunes 7.6.1.9). Incidentally, I do not have any purchased music on my iTunes.
I have perfomed a manual migration of the data and itunes' music store (My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music, and have re-imported the new folder into itunes which appears to be sucessful, i.e. I can see and play "all" my music from iTunes.
My questions are:
It appears to of lost all my old podcasts.
It also appears to be filling any new podcasts no into the podcast directory (god know where it is now putting them).
It has also lost my playlists.
Does anybody know if there is a slicker (and less manual) process to seemlessly migrate iTunes from one machine to another, and for your ipod not to have an issue with it?
Many thanks in advance
Cheers
Chris

I found a solution using help from another forum...so I'll post it...hopefully other people can use it:
1. I copied my "Adam's Folder\Music" folder into "iTunes\iTunes Music" on my XP PC, and then I changed the library location to that location under prefrences>advanced.
2. I then copied the entire "My Music\iTunes"(including the Music folder I just added to it) folder from my XP PC over the "Music\iTunes" folder on my Vista PC. Then I changed the library location to "Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Music" location under preferences>advanced.
3. I then, on my Vista PC, copied the "iTunes Music\Music" folder to "Adam's Folder\Music", and changed the library location to that under preferences>advanced.
done!
iTunes found the files, and all the Library Data(Date Added, Playcounts, etc.) is there as well! All while not having iTunes manage my music, and keeping music on the same relative folder on my new vista PC(Desktop\Adam's Folder\Music).

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