Speed of file sharing (firewire) to copy music files?

Hi All!
Just got a new MacBook and am attempting to copy an extensive iTunes library from an old iBook to the new MacBook.
Thanks to these boards, I've successfully managed to enable fire sharing and can access the old computer as a separate server from which to copy files. ( I didn't want to use the target disk feature because I didn't want to copy the settings and many of the old files from the old iBook.)
I dragged the iTunes library folder to my desktop, expecting it to take a few hours for the music files (and hopefully, playlists!) to copy.
The dialogue box shows however that it will take appoximately 108 hours (several days!) to copy the 9.32 GB of information to my laptop. This seems to be awfully slow and, certainly, the Apple clerk who told me about this mentioned nothing about this taking so long. She made it sound liked it'd be a snap.
Is this slow file copying process standard? Is there some other way to copy the files more quickly?
Does using the "target disk" set up work more quickly? And, if I did use it, would I be able to selectively choose which files & settings to bring over?
Thanks, in advance, for your advice on this!
Kk

Have you tried just copying the iTunes library from the old computer to the new? This may not work so move the original iTunes library before doing it. Quit iTunes, move the iTunes library file (in the iTunes folder) to the desktop. Copy the iTunes library file from the old computer into your iTunes folder and start iTunes. If all is okay, great.
If not, on the old computer, select each playlist manually and select export. Export the playlist (XML or text, it doesn't matter). Copy to your new computer and import them. This works fine with everything put smartlists. So far I've not found a way to copy them.

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