Playlist file confusion

I have sucessfully moved my itunes libary to a network drive, however the playlists i create on my mac won't copy over like the music does.
Somebody has said that the ...iTunes Music Library.xml is the file i need to copy over, but i note that there is one in the music folder where the itunes folder is and one also in the actual itunes folder with all the music, do i need to copy both or is one a mistake . I also note that there is two of a file called "iTunes Library" which looks like database file...does this need to be copied aswell ?
Thanks
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You've posted to the iTunes Match forum, which your question does not appear to be releated to. You'll get better support responses by posting to the iTunes for Windows forum.

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