Transferring music through to different computers

We just got a new PC for the house, and I want to transfer the music I have on my itunes from the old computer (since there are about 300 songs, a third or so of which I bought from the Music Store) to the new one. I tried uploading and transferring songs through blank disks but it takes pretty close to forever and all of the information about the song gets lost. Is there any other way to do this?
I'm not sure if this was put in the right forum. If you can help, thanks.
HP Media Center PC   Windows XP  
HP Media Center PC   Windows XP  

I enabled my iPod for disk use and selected the "manage playlists" option and removed nearly all my music, because I was using 17GB of my 27 available. Then I consolidated my library, copied it to the iPod and then copied it from the iPod to the new computer. The steps are laid out here: http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorial/ipgettingstartedt14.html
I found the video to be confusing. I suggest clicking the link reading "learn more" and follow those steps. The only steps they don't indicate are that you need to be running the same version of iTunes on each machine and that after you copy your iTunes library to the new PC, you'll need to authorize that computer manually. You may have a total of five (5) PC's authorized at any one time. Without authorizing the new PC, you won't be able to play your purchased music, videos, movies or audio books. So far so good!

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