Transfering library DATA to new MBP- Help!

Hi Folks,
For the last few years I've been using a PC, with all my music on the internal hard drive, and external hard drive on which I backed all the music up onto incase the PC went belly up. My itunes library always accessed the files on the C drive.
Now I have a shiny new MBP and I want to add the music on the external hard drive (which seems to be read-only when connected to the MBP, any idea's why?) to my itunes library, but I want to retain all the information from my original library on my PC's C drive (particularly as I only have about half the songs "checked" for syncing with my ipod, more on which in a sec!).
So I copied the itunes library data files onto the new MBP, but as I expected, when it loaded up the info (with the external hard drive connected) the original library mapped all the songs to the C drive, leaving the grey ! mark next to all the songs. And if I add all the files to itunes by dragging the folder from the external hard drive into the itunes window, then I'm left with a duplicate of every song, of course without any corresponding data (e.g. checked, last played).
Thus the question is, how do I import the songs on my external hard drive into the library, as well as all the library information from my PC? (and also, why is the external harddrive read only?)
This is my first Mac, so please be gentle!
Much appreciated,
Daniel

Not sure I am sending to the right person, but I want to back up my library/songs, video to an external hard drive. the back up process in iTunes seems to only want to back up to a disk. I'm sure I could drag and drop from itunes to the external hd, but is there a better way?
finally, looking for a process to follow when adding new music to itunes and copying to the external hd.
any assistance would be appreciated.

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