Moving iTunes music library

I've got a question about moving my iTunes music library (BTW, I read this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748).
I've got a huge library with extensively customized playlists, ratings, etc, which I cannot lose. I've outgrown my external HD where my current music library lives. I was planning on:
1) Backing up the disk my library is on
2) Attaching a new disk, reformatting, naming the volume the same as the old volume.
3) Restoring all data to new disk
4) Launching iTunes
If I do these steps, will my music library come through intact? Again, the important thing is that I cannot lose all my playlists, prefs, ratings, etc.
Thanks to anyone who knows for sure and can shed some light.
  Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Yes, that will work. Also, if you have the ability to plug both the old and the new drive in at once, you can use Carbon Copy Cloner to do it as well.
The important part of what you are doing is to maintain the location of the music files, and the iTunes Library Files. As long as those are good, yuo don't even need to keep the drive the same name. But, I'm like you and would prefer to leave it the same.
You don't have to use Carbon Copy Cloner, but its a pretty easy piece of software, and will make an exact duplicate of your old drive, but with the expanded space of the new one.
Carbon Copy Cloner can be gotten here: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

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