PC to MAC, how to transfer everything?

I'm getting a Macbook on Friday, I have an iPhone 3G and obviously you can only sync the iPhone with one library. I have transferred all of my music to my external hard drive but how do i back up everything to do with iTunes so that I can transfer it to my Mac with no problems? Or is that it?
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks

Choose Consolidate Library from the Library section of the File menu, copy the iTunes folder(not just iTunes Music) to an external drive, put that folder on the new computer, launch iTunes with the Option key held down, and point it to that library. Alternatively, back it up to CDs or DVDs and restore the backup on the new computer.
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