Putting My iTunes on my new laptop and iPhone

I recently got a new MacBook and iPhone. I have an iTunes account on my Mac home computer and an iTouch with all my songs on it. Is there way to put my my iTunes account on my MacBook and then on my iPhone? So the end result would be: Mac home computer, iTouch, iPhone and MacBook all be the same.

I will tell you what I did (attempted), the result- but ran into some "!" problems that I am still trying to find the solution to.
Run a Fire wire between the Laptop & Desktop. Start up your Laptop while holding down the "T" key. This will create your Laptop's Hard drive to pop up on your Desktop as an additional external drive. Then, simply copy over your entire iTunes Folder (music, library files and all) as a mirror image of what you have on your Desktop. Be sure to put it in the same place, with the same Preferences for both iTunes. It worked seamlessly for me for a while.
My (still) problem is that after writing over the Laptop files several times to update, most of my links became broke displaying a "!" - I know not why, resulting in me having to manually re-link each Tune- a long and laborious process. Nobody in these Forums has come up with an adequate reason or solution.
Someone suggested a "Doug App" that re-links all the Tunes in one fell swoop- but Mr. Doug is not responding to emails- so the App is a "dud-by Doug dude" as far as I am concerned.
This will get you half way there. But if you are a professional utilizing a large # of Tunes- beware.

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