Moving iTunes Data from one Mac to Another

Hello,a little history first. I have a early 2007 Mac Pro that died on me. The screen on my Apple 20 inch cinema display is gray with thin yellow vertical lines on it. Could be video card or monitor. It is a little over 6 years old and I decided to get a new iMac. Due to the age of my Mac Pro I was not able to upgrade to Mountain Lion. I have the latest version of Lion on it. So even though I had a backup via time machine I knew that I would be bringing the new computer up to speed manually which I did via target mode using the firwire 800 port on the old Mac Pro via an adapter to the thunderbolt port on the new iMac.
While in target mode I saw that my Mac Pro hard drive showed up as a startup disk in system preferences so I slected it and did a restart to hopefully boot up on the old drive so I could turn off time machine and de-authorize my iTunes account. On restart I get a gray screen on the new iMac with a gray circle with a diagonal line throught the circle. I waited for several minues and nothing happened. My guess is that I can't start up my old drive with Lion on the new iMac with Mountain Lion.
I want to move my impoterd and purchased music and apps for my iphone from my old Mac Pro to the new iMac. Can anyone tell what files or folders I need to move?  I do have the latest version of iTunes on the old Mac Pro.
Regards, John

Copy the entire iTunes folder from your old Mac. It's in your user account's music folder.  Put it in the same place on your new Mac. If you already have an iTunes folder on the new Mac, replace it with the folder from your old Mac.

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