Need easy fix to make my external HD read and write from PC to Mac user

Ok. So I got a MacBook pro. Changing from PC. I have 2500 songs on my iTunes file which is on an external hard drive. This is where I keep it. It was a sinch directing iTunes to where my music files and playlists were but needing to add more songs in the playlists from this hard drive that has all my other music is apparently impossible. Mac only reads this ext HD and can't write because it's NTSC. OK, I googled to try and find a fix. Macfuse nor NTSC3g worked. I don't want to buy another thing for this after spending $1200. Nor do I want to take the time to reformat 20,000 songs in an external HD from NTSC to FAT. is there a better way? I specifically asked the clerk in the apple store if this was going to be a problem. He said no of course. But apparently it is a problem. Anyone got any ideas before I take this laptop back?

Here are all the NTFS mounting, read and writing utilities available for the Mac.
http://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/ntfs
Read the reviews, download the demos, try them out.
Can I ask how big your external HD is? Why not buy another external drive and copy your music files from the NTFS formatted PC drive to a Mac formatted drive.
You will need another external drive for backuping up your MacBook, anyway.
You do have a backup plan for your MacBook?

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