Move iPad from XP to OS X

A friend of mine bought an iPad. Her Mac Mini was running 10.4, so she set up the iPad with her PC running XP.
She's upgraded the Mini to 10.6 and would like to switch the iPad over so it syncs with the Mini. She's purchased some apps and iBooks and doesn't want to lose those.
Both machines are on her home network, and both are authorized with the iTunes store.
Any tips or tricks for switching it over?

It's called Home Share, access it through Advanced - Turn On Home Share.
As Glorfindeal says, register both machines with the same user name and Password, then drag and drop from the left side bar, each library will appear on both machines allowing you to copy from one to the other.
One thing, the copied (bought) version of Apps will not update, only the originally bought ones on each machine. (you could copy them again once updated? - small beer I think?)
The other issue (although I'm guessing here because I've not got my iPad yet) is that if it's like iPhone, it will need to reconfigure itself for OSX if it was originally set up for Windows (spits). iTunes will do this for you but you need to accept this in a confirmation 'click'.
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