Moving library from XP to vista

Hey guys i just purchased my new laptop with vista on it. I moved all the music from my music folder on xp into my music folder in vista. i also moved my itunes folder including my library and stuff. When i imported my old library into the newly installed itunes on my laptop, it recovered everything including all my songs, ratings, and playlists. The only thing is though, that it marked every song as "not found". so i basically have to put all the songs in and then delete all the duplicates? or is there another way to import the library from xp to vista?
Thanks so much

Quit iTunes on teh Vista machine.
Copy the entire
\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ folder from XP
to
\Music\ on Vista.
Start iTunes. Everything should be there and work fine.

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See this -> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
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2- On the iTunes menu, select Advanced/Consolidate Library. This will gather all your media and copy it to the new location (the folder you designated in step 1).
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Hello DWaldo,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Is it simply a matter of exporting the library from the desktop and importing it to the laptop?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1329
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