Where are my iTunes?

I have a small library of music on my iBook and almost as many podcasts but I recently purchased my new iMac and using the firewire target mode tried to get everything copied across.
Long story short, things like iMovies and iTunes and iPhoto library didn't transfer though documents etc did.
I've located and copied my iPhoto library and thought I'd also done that for iTunes but when I run the app I get the library entries but there doesn't appear to be any music? How do I move it to my iMac?
Can anyone help?
iMac Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6) iBook G3-800 | 30GB | 640MB | Airport

Usually your audio tracks are located in: ./Users/YourUserID/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music
This article might be of interest: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93063

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