PC to MAC How to/best way to transfer lightroom settings/develop

I just installed CS6 and LR4 on my new Macbook Retina. I had been using a PC with LR3 and CS5, and I'm wondering how I can keep all the Develop settings, etc in the transfer of my photos.
Initially, all I did was a straight copy and paste of the original photos files to an external drive and transferred, but now I'm wondering how to get the LR settings applied to those photos. Can someone give me a step by step to copy my pics or just settings from the old PC to the new Mac and keep all my ratings, settings, etc? I have 300GB of photos, so it took a while to copy them, but I'd do it again correctly to keep my presets if someone can tell me how.

Victoria, I only have about 50 photos out of all them that I have ratings on, and have Developed, etc.  I have no clue what Publish Service is so I assume I don't use it.  The link seems really intense. It says that some settings are cross platform and some aren't,  My hierarchy is pretty simple I guess.  I have 24,000 photos in my "Photo" folder and then a folder for each country I've been to inside of that listed below.. In the preferences, it talks about "store presets with catalog" etc... do I want that or not? etc  & parent folder, etc..  I only have the parent option on the main Photo folder
I see all my lightroom files and folders, .lrdata, backups etc, but I've no clue which one to take with me over to the Mac to avoid deleting all of them and reloading 24,000
WHICH brings me to Rikk,
Just right click on my Photos folder, with the 24,000 pics in it and Export as Catalog, send it to my WDBook and then bring them all in on my new Mac with Lightroom 4, and all my Develop/Settings  is/are there?
That sounds a TON easier than the above, and even though more time consuming, the route I'd happily take at this point for simplicity.
Thank you both.

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