Showing Songs In 'Purchased Music' On 2 Macs?

My 24" Intel iMac has gone away to have a new Superdrive fitted so I am currently using my 7 year old G3 500Mhz iMac!
I need to buy a song from iTunes using my G3.
How do I ensure that the song is installed on my Intel iMac (when I get it back) in the Purchased Music folder?
I need it to be there because that is the folder that I back up daily to my iDisc via my .Mac subscription.

I resolved this in the end by dragging the song into a plug-in flash drive on my G3 then plugging the flash drive into my Intel iMac and dragging the song into the Purchased Music folder. It works fine.
Was this an overly-complicated method of getting an iTunes song from one computer to another?

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