New Mac, how to keep Date Added info in new iTunes

Yesterday I bought a new iMac, replacing my older one.
I have 66GB of iTunes Music & Videos which I saved on an external hard drive. I copied the "iTunes" folder from my Mac onto the hard drive.
I know I can just drag the folder into iTunes on my new Mac, but I would lose all the "date added" and "play count" information. I see that in the iTunes folder I saved, there is an "Album Artwork" folder, an "iTunes Library database file", an "iTunes 4 Music Library database file", an "iPod Games Library database file", and an "iPod Games" folder.
Does the iTunes Library database file contain all the information? Because I tried to replace that file with the current one on my new Mac, and when I opened iTunes, all my songs, playlists, and data added information was there, but all the songs had an exclamation mark beside them. So then I dragged the iTunes folder into iTunes but then I had doubles of each thing.
So my question is, how can I import my music by keeping the Date Added, Play Count, and playlist information?

Normally if you want a trouble free move, all your music files must be in the iTunes Music folder as designated in the preferences.
However if you music is on an external drive and the full path to the music files will NOT change, this is no essential. iTunes cannot tolerate any change to the path to music files that are not in the iTunes Music folder. If the files are in the iTunes music folder, it can tolerate changes to the path above the level of the iTunes Music folder.
All the data on playlists, count, ratings is in iTunes Library.itl which by default is in ...My Music\iTunes assuming you haven't moved it. This iTunes folder also contains your album artwork, so you need to save the whole folder.
When you have iTunes installed and working and before you add any more music, you will need to replace the iTunes folder created by the new installation of iTunes with your original iTunes folder and ensure the path for the iTunes Music folder is correctly set in the preferences.
Because it sounds as though you have a somewhat non standard arrangemnt, I can't be sure that what I have said is exactly right but I hope I have given you neough to sort it out.

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