Moving to new laptop, Can i just confirm something

I'm sure (ish) i'm right but before i bite the bullet i want to make sure i'm right.
I have a laptop running Win7 Home Prem 64bit and latest iTunes with 120GB classic, I'm about to format the drive and reinstall Win7 but before i do can i just confirm the folders i need to copy are the following ones:
"C-Users-User Name-Music" which contains iTunes folder which includes "Album Artwork/iTunes Media/iTunes Videos" folders.
Plus on top of this i'm sure there was another location that needed to be backed up and i think it was within the C:/Program Files/iTunes folder.
My object here is to reinstall Win7 & iTunes and then just copy over from my external hard drive back on to laptop drive and having to avoid reimporting the CD and the artwork, not to worried about play lists etc but albums and artwork are a must to get back on so when i re-sync the iPod with iTunes there is no issues.
Hope i have made my post clear enough.

Of course on top of this i have made sure all hidden files were visible as well.

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