Moving from one laptop to another

Now i know this must have been asked a few (ok hundreds) of times but i just want to make sure i'm doing it right as it's not my music collection were talking about.
Laptop 1, run vista and has all itunes stuff on C drive, except the "iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes" (as well as "iPod Games and Music" folders) which sits on his D drive I have taken a copy of the *"iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes" (as well as "iPod Games and Music" folders) and stored this on my own external hard drive.
But I know just copying those 30 or 40 odd GB of music files will not be enough and i'm sure i have read on here that i must take some more folder from his C drive.
Now i'm not sure if we are talking about "C:\Users\user name\Documents" folders or "C:\Program Files\iTunes" can anyone shed any light on this for me?
Finally one last point new Laptop 2 will be running Win7 Home Prem 64bit (yes i have the 64bit installer) can anyone also tell me how to go about importing the stuff from the old laptop (well to be honest it will be my external hard drive), onto the new one so his playlist art work etc are all carried over and any issue with first syncing i do.
Sorry for so many Q's but as i say it's not my music collection and don't want to screw it up for him.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

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But I know just copying those 30 or 40 odd GB of music files will not be enough and i'm sure i have read on here that i must take some more folder from his C drive.
Copy the *entire iTunes folder.* It includes the iTunes Media folder as well as all the library files that have the playcounts, playlists, and ratings.
Now i'm not sure if we are talking about "C:\Users\user name\Documents" folders or "C:\Program Files\iTunes" can anyone shed any light on this for me?
The one you want is in Documents. On the Win 7 machine you will put it in Music.
Don't bother with anything in Program Files; when you install iTunes on the new computer, the correct form of the program files will be built.

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