Moving iTunes Library from XP to Vista

After I copied and moved my library (using my iPod) from my XP laptop to a Vista PC some things aren't working. One, none of the playlists went over. Do I have to manually recreate each playlist on the new PC? Also, I transferred all of my "purchased" music from my ipod to the new Vista PC and for some reason there are duplicates of my purchased songs. In the purchased songs playlist each song has the '!' by it however the purchased songs are available in the main music playlist. Should I delete the duplicated with the ! by them?

It is my understanding that I can import the xml file to itunes.
I'm attempting to create a new library on my new iMac and then import the xml file with my xp library. I've tried this with the location "smb://xpcomputername/E/iTunes" but I only see 1757 tracks out of the 22606 total tracks on my xp iTunes library. The tracks that do show up look like they are streaming tracks (like online radio streams show up). How should I change the file locations in the xml file to make this work if my windows directory that contain my iTunes library is mounted on my iMac?

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http://i43.tinypic.com/2090uic.jpg

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