Transfering Songs to New Laptop!

I am off to college next year and i just got a new laptop for school. So now is the time to transfer all my songs in iTunes from the family computer to iTunes on my own laptop. I dont want to go through the hassel of putting them on again and editing the title, album, etc. the way i want it on the new iTunes program on the iPod. I also would like to keep the playlists as they are on the iPod/iTunes also.
What is the best and easiet way to go about transfering the songs?

Here are some options...
Use Your iPod To Move Songs To A New Computer
Buegie: How to Copy and Move your Music Files from One Computer to Another
hudgie: Migrating iTunes for Windows to a new PC
iTunes: How to copy music between authorized computers
MacMuse: Computer Crashed (Move Music From iPod to computer)
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