Keeping my library whilst upgrading to Win 7

I am upgrading from vista to win 7 which will require a clean install.
at the moment I have everything working as i would like using 9.0.2.25 and a 120gb classic.
All of my music files are in one folder with relevant subdirectories for artist/album. ITunes is pointed to this folder for its 'media folder location'.
I do not have 'keep itunes media folder organised' or 'copy to itunes media folder when adding to library' checked.
Apart from making sure the whole music folder is backed up what else do i need to do. I have spent hours getting everything properly ordered with the correct artwork and don't want to have to start again!
Thanks
Jon

It's not quite so simple if you've split things up or never had them joined up. In the layout above, i.e. an iTunes folder containing an *iTunes Music/iTunes Media* folder the library works with the relative path from the main libray file to the media folder (this may not be strictly true but the effect is the same). If things are not in this layout then the library records the absolute path reference to each media file. If the absolute paths remain unchanged it may possible to move the library files into a location immediately above the top level music folder.
It might help if we can be clear exactly where things are now. Let's assume since you're using Vista that your Music is in C:UsersJonMusic C:UsersJonDocuments and your iTunes library is in C:UsersJonMusiciTunes. If this is the case I suggest that you copy the contents of the iTunes folder into C:UsersJon. Then click the icon to launch iTunes and immediately press & hold down the shift key until prompted to choose a library. Navigate to the *iTunes Library.itl* file in C:UsersJon and open it. iTunes will start and should display an "updating library" progress box for a while. When this finished check that you can play music.
You'll note that the iTunes window is now called Jon instead of iTunes. Close iTunes & wait for it to finish saving the library. Rename your original iTunes folder as *iTunes Old*. Create a new iTunes folder at C:UsersJonMusic and create a Music folder inside that. Move the library files, album artwork folder etc. from C:UsersJon into C:UsersJonMusiciTunes. Move the artist folders from C:UsersJonMusic C:UsersJonDocuments into C:UsersJonMusiciTunesMusic. Start iTunes & test.
If things stop working at any point you should be able to retrace your steps and get back to a working library. If this all sounds too complicated then you could always ceed control to iTunes and consolidate your library. This will copy everything outside of your iTunes folder into new folders inside your iTunes folder. Once completed you can delete the originals. Availible free space may preclude this action and it will put everything into the default iTunes folder structure which may or may not be to your taste.
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