Moving just part of a library?

Hi everyone,
I just got a new MacBook and would like to move all of my music from my old iMac to my new computer.... my problem is, I have over 2,000 songs on my original iMac... but I don't want all 2,000 on my new MacBook... There is a lot of stuff that I don't listen to anymore or wasn't too fond of in the beginning but it somehow ended up in my library anyway. I'd like to keep my new MacBook iTunes Library more organized, so I went through all 2,000 and picked about 1,200 that I want to move to my new computer. I just made a playlist with the songs that I want to keep. (The music is a mixture of iTunes purchases and CD rips, if it makes any difference.)
My plan was to just drag those songs right from iTunes to a portable LaCie hard drive that I have, and then import them on my MacBook, but when I drag the files to the hard drive, it says "Preparing To Copy"... it even begins to list the songs on my hard drive... but then it all goes away.
I just tried to do a screen capture so you could see exactly what I mean, but now it doesn't even say Preparing To Copy! Just take a look for yourself: http://www.deandagati.com/itunes2.mov
If I try to copy a single song it works.... even a few songs at a time works.... and I got it to do 100 songs ONCE... but now it won't do that anymore either.... It seems like my iMac is being temperamental... or is this some kind of crazy security thing?
Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated =)
Thanks!
Message was edited by: behindTHEscenes5

Thanks to.... well, nobody.... for helping me with this problem.
But for anyone who has this problem in the future - I have a solution!
I used iTunes to burn the playlist to two DVDs... then I imported the songs over on my MacBook.
It took about an hour to do all the burning/importing... but now I have all the songs that I want. =)

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