So exported the xml from Itunes on my mac and imported it in MB. Playlists that I spent some time and effort creating in iTunes on my macbook appear in MB, but are totally empty. I even manually changed paths in the files themselves in notepad++, making sure they were IDENTICAL to what MB handles paths, and it still will not accept it. MacOS and Windows read network share paths differently theres no getting around this.
Anyway thanks for no help. Glad I posted here..