Transporting Itunes to new macbook--help!

I bought an external hard drive and dragged my itunes folder from my old imac into the icon. I then attached the external hard drive to my new macbook and it showed the itunes icon, so i clicked on it. It said that it could not be supported on this system. There was also an icon over it like the no smoking sign, a circle with a line through it.
My best guess is that I have to deauthorize my old itunes? But I still want to have that music on my computer because I'm not going away to college for another two or three weeks. Anyone have an idea what I have to do?

You appear to be trying to move the iTunes application, which doesn't contain any of the songs; the songs will be located in ~/Music/iTunes/ by default in Mac OS X, where ~ is the folder in the Finder's sidebar with the house icon. If the first computer is running Mac OS 9, look in the folder Documents:iTunes of the hard disk for the music.
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