Re-creating itunes setup for a family

Hi -
We have four PCs (for four individual family members) all with standalone copies of iTunes, four different libraries on four different hard drives, etc. Two separate apple accounts (three use one apple account to download from the apple store and one uses his own). There are also two iPhones and two nano ipods and one ipod mini.
Lots of duplicated tunes (from copied CDs) mean that I'd like to rationalise it all and have a backup element. So I have bought a NAS mirrored drive and want to move all existing music and iTunes purchased videos to it.
Can anyone tell me if there's a standard procedure for doing this? If I was setting it all up from the start I guess it would be fairly standard, but I'd like to move the libraries so that all podcasts, music (sourced from CD and iTunes store) and (only half a dozen or so) movies are available on the new drive, and obviously so that all future music and other media are loaded onto the network drive.
Thanks,
Steve

Have a read here...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18409815?ac_cid=ha
Also See Here...
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