Migrating from itunes on windows to itunes on a MAC

Question

Hi,
I currently have about 110 Gbytes of disk space assigned to iTunes on a windoze XP system. I'd like to move over to using a G5 that i've just bought.
What's the best way of doing it?
This is what I've tried so far:-
1). Set up an NFS mount between the windows machine and the G5
2). Created a new itunes setup on the G5
3). Tried to add to the library on the G5 by specifying the nfs mount point.
While I can get to the directory, i get an error message saying that it cannot find a library.xml file ( or itunes library.xml file, can't remember which)
Next attempt was to create a temporary directory on the G% and perform a copy that traverses directories from the NFS mount point (/mnt/shared/xp_itunes) to a temporary directory.
Problem here was that when i riped off my CDs into the windows version of iTunes, there were a lot of album or track names with non ASCII characters. When you try and use the cp command, it bleats about them and skips the copy.
Next attempt was to use tar to generate a single (tar) file with the whole directory structure in there. It doesn't like the non standard characters either.
While i could back up itunes to 11 DBDs or so and then try and then restore them onto the G5, is there another way?
TIA
Alex
G5 quad core,mac mini   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

Answer 1

fixed it myself.
nfs mounted the windows disk directory and managed to import the music.