New to Mac---trying (unsuccessfully) to transfer files from pc

Hi! I'm new to mac and I just got a MacBook Pro. I've been trying to transfer my songs, pictures, and files from my Dell pc (Windows Vista) to my new Mac but I'm having no luck. I have tried to connect the two using both an ethernet cable and a wireless network. When it prompted me for a username and password I just put in the username and left the password blank (b/c I don't have one on my pc) and it said the password had expired. So I went on my pc and created a new password. When I put the password in it now tells me that it just can't connect because of an "error." This happens both when using the ethernet cable and the wireless network. I clicked on the browse button (when trying to connect wirelessly) to see if the Mac could detect the Dell, but the only computer it can detect is the desktop (also a Dell running Vista) that is wired into the router. I really don't want to have to bring both the laptops to the apple store and I don't want to manually move them with the 2GB flash drive I have. Please if anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. Someone told me it may have something to do w/the configuration...
Thanks
Lisa

Select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and enter "connect to windows pc" in the search field. The second article should help with what you want to do.
Transferring music for iTunes:
Geek to Live- How to move an iTunes library from a PC to Mac (and back);
Macworld - How to transfer iTunes libraries between PC and Mac.
If you wish to put your photos into iPhoto you will have to transfer the original image files such as JPEGs, TIFFs, etc. to the Mac then import them into iPhoto.
If you have an external hard drive available that will connect to your PC, then you can use it to transfer your image files and other files. The drive will have to be formatted FAT32 if you expect to write to it from the Mac. However, if you only need to read from the drive on the Mac, then it can be formatted NTFS.

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