ITunes Library Does Not See Music in iTunes Music Folder

I'm sure this has been posted before, but I can't seem to search the right combination of terms to find the answer.
The issue: I just bought a Macbook Pro, an upgrade from my Powermac G5. On the old setup, iTunes was accessing its library from a second internal harddrive. I've removed that drive and put it in an external enclosure for use on the MBP.
When setting up my MBP, I used migration assistant to import my settings (probably the source of my problem). Once set up, I copied my entire iTunes Music folder to the harddrive of the MBP and pointed iTunes to it.
iTunes lists all of the music but can't find any of it. I've tried changing the iTunes Music folder location in the preferences to something else and then back to where the music is, just to force iTunes to reread it and nothing seems to work.
How can I get iTunes to recognize this music? Again, iTunes is pointed to the correct folder and all the music is in there. It's very important that I don't lost my comments and playlists if at all possible.
Thanks!

Not sure why this worked, but I dragged my old iTunes Library file and iTunes Music Library.xml from the old computer into the new one, and it automatically worked. Weird fix, but I'm happy nonetheless.

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