Manually migrating to another PC and full path names

This is really a question about user names. Do you have to have the same user name on the new PC if you want copy music files AND the original libary to a new PC.
I am guessing that the user name does have to be identical on the new PC from looking in iTunes Music Library.xml which appears to contain full path names.
Is there a way round this if the user names are not the same and you want to keep all the information in your library?

Just thinkng about this a bit more, I guess that as the path to the music folder is set in Preferences, the iTunes music folder can be transferred to a new PC with a different account name as long as all the music is in the iTunes music folder and the iTunes folder is copied to where it is expected on the new PC.
Have I guessed this right - that the path to the music folder is not set in iTunes Library.itl file, but in the preference file, and this is in contrast to the xml file where the full paths are given?
Unfortunately a lot of my music is not in the iTunes music folder - a strong incentive to consolodating the library before transferring.
I may seem to be a bit anal about this but I want a trouble free transfer.

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so I will explain my question by giving an example:
I want to send file from the Desktop by the "Send to" on the popup menu to my program.
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