Migrating library from PC to Mac (and copying sync check boxes)

Hi,
I recently bought an iMac to upgrade from a PC, and everything's going awesome - except my iTunes library.
I can get the music/files across to the iMac fine, however I have a library in excess of 60gb and use a 16gb iPhone, so was pretty reliant on the checkboxes to keep my synced library under 16gb.
I can't seem to find away to copy across the check box information, and would hate to have to manually uncheck all the songs I don't want to sync as I have almost 6,000 items in my library.
I've seen the iTunes back up option and thinking of trying that, but I'll need to buy a ton of DVDs to do so - so thought it was best to check if there are any other options, and also see if the back up contains the check box preferences.
Any help would be most appreciated - cheers!

If anyone's got the same problem, don't bother backing up the library to DVD - it doesn't sync the check boxes. I just found out, 22 DVDs later.
Was going to put all the synced songs in a playlist and export it (as suggested above), but you can't sort by checkbox - so if anyone has any more solutions, I'm all ears.
Cheers

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