Switching from Powerbook to iMac.

I have two ATVs synced to a Powerbook running Tiger. The iTunes files are held on an external 500GB drive. I propose replacing the Powerbook with an iMac running Leopard housing the iTunes files on the internal drive, using the external drive for Time Machine backup. My concern is that I could lose all the files on the ATVs during the switch. What are the potential pitfalls, and how do I avoid them?

I may be wrong, but my understanding is that when you set up to sync to the new iTunes instance on a new Mac, then AppleTV would just assume different Mac, different library, start to sync afresh.
It probably depends what holds known AppleTV device parameters - if it's in the iTunes library and you transfer that befor connecting to AppleTV it might work, but say the known AppleTVs are held outside the music library, then I'd imagine you'd have to set up the AppleTV to sync with a new iTunes instance and that would mess things up.
As you have the original files the worst case would be AppleTV resyncing the lot wouldn't it?
As far as finding the 'same files', it's hard to know if it's iTunes or AppleTv that maintains a list of what's synced and what that list holds. If it were an absolute address list then the files would no longer be where expected, but if relative to the iTunes library they'd be the same.
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