Synced iPad with wrong computer, now what?

Hello All,
I bought this iPad a couple of days ago and I was planning on getting a new iMac in the near future. My Core Duo iMac would be too expensive to upgrade so it could have run 10.5. But my old G4 PowerBook Has 10.5.8 on it. So I upgraded that computer's iTunes to version 10. Now I Have a problem because, when I get a new iMac I'm going to transfer everything from the Core Duo iMac to the new IMac. How do I put the iTunes from the G4 PowerBook onto a new computer so I don't have to erase the iPad? The only music I ever bought from the iTunes Music Store is on my iPad and now on the G4 PowerBook. All the music on the core duo is mine and a lot I have no use for on the new iMac. What do I do? This is getting very worry some. Isn't there a way of deauthorizing the iTunes on the G4 and then move all the stuff I bought from the iTunes store to a different authorized ITunes? I have very little on my iPad and do not wish to lose it or what I have at the iTunes store.
Please help,
Thanks,
Dave

Ralph,
I copied the entire iTunes library from the old PowerBook onto a DVD data disc. I have it in two forms, the songs and videos themselves burned by iTunes, and the entire iTunes library from my music folder, burned by the finder. When I use migration when I get the new iMac, I want that iTunes to be the one I sync the iPod with, not the old PowerBook or the Core Duo iMac. There are only 3 songs in my iTunes library that I purchased from iTunes. I don't think it's a big deal, after Migration, to turn on "Home Sharing" and adding the couple of purchased songs to the library on the new iMac. A lot of the songs on the PowerBook came from the core duo iMac. So there's probably no a lot to copy.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean't by the iTunes backup file. Which file in the iTunes library is that?
Thanks,
Dave
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