Transferring Star ratings in iTunes

After using iTunes on a windows machine for years, I have taken the plung and purchased a mini-MAC. I have transferred all my songs from iTunes on the windows machine to iTunes on the mini-MAC. I have also figured out how to import my playlists from the PC to the MAC. Is there any way to "transfer" the star ratings of the songs from the PC iTunes to the MAC iTunes? I would really hate to lose the ratings on over 2000 songs?
Thanks
Mini Mac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I did it by making 5 separate smart playlists on the original machine, called '5star', '4star', '3star', etc. Then I exported the playlists - but as .txt files, NOT .xml files.
I imported these playlists onto the new machine, then selected each of the imported playlists, one at a time, and assigned the appropriate star rating to all songs in each list. (Ctrl-A will select all songs in each list; then Ctrl-I will bring up one Info screen for each entire playlist, and you can go to the Options tab to set the star rating for all songs in each list.)
Once I figured it out, it went pretty fast. You can delete both the smart playlist and the imprted lists after the ratings are assigned.

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I've built a large collection of tracks in iTunes over the years and have meticulously 'star-rated' every one. A few months ago I bought a new computer (my first Mac) and transferred my music files across. Everything worked well except I lost my star ratings. Really don't want to start again (I have over 5000 tracks!). Is there a way I can transfer the star-ratings? Any ideas on what I did wrong?
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