Transferring Itunes from XP Home to new Vista machine

My son has his Itunes5 on a Gateway running WindowsXP Home.
The CD drive is a read only and will not write CD's or DVD's. I purchased a Belkin Transfer cable for XP to Vista transfers. Can I utilize this transfer cable to move his Itunes to the new Machine? If so how? Instead of write to a CD can I write to a file and transfer that file to the new machine. I also have a available a 2GB USB memory stick. Could I use that in place of CD Media.
Because we are running on an older processor it will not let him update to Itunes7. But in looking at some of the postings it looks like he needs Itunes7.1.1 to run it on Vista. Would we than transfer his music folder to the new machine and than update to current Itunes7 or download the new version and transfer his music folder. If you need any further clarifications please do not hesitate to ask.
Thanks, Geo
pc Windows XP

The way I would do it, but not necessarily the most easy way, would be to copy the iTunes folder (probably C:\Documents and Settings\username\username's music) from the old computer, to the new computer's user's music dircetory over a network using windows file sharing. In Vista, the default directory would be C:\Users\username\Music\Music.
Then install iTunes on the Vista machine (I highly recommend using the absolute latest version of iTunes in Vista).
When launching iTunes, hold the shift key, then iTunes will prompt you for a location for iTunes library file. In the dialog that appears click 'Choose Library...' then browse to the '.itl' file in the folder you moved from the older computer.
It has worked from XP to XP, because the directory layout is the same, but with vista you may encounter some problems. You could try (in theory this should work), by creating a directory on the new machine identical to the old one.
Good luck.

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