Transferring a specific playlist to a flashdrive from iTunes 8

Hi
I would like to copy a non-DRM playlist of bunch of songs to a flash drive to share on another computer. These are hand picked songs all over my collection so to copy and paste each one from the Finder will take a long time.
I can see that I can technically highlight the songs and right-click Copy them in iTunes but when I try to Paste at the destination the option is grayed out.
Any help would be appreciated.

ok I found out i can drag the songs on to a folder and then from there on to my flash drive.
Directly dragging the songs from itunes to the flash drive proved futile as it would only copy one song and then stop. A bit of a hassle but a work around!

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