Need help moving itunes to another computer

I got a new computer and I don't know how to move my library from my old computer to the new one. Any help would be great.

Here are a couple of links that you may find helpful, peepster24:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93366
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607339&#607339

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