Itunes will not add songs

I store all of my music on an external hard drive. I have been using it this way on an older Dell laptop with Windows XP for over a year now. I recently purchased a new Dell Inspirion with Windows Vista. I've been trying to add the same songs into Itunes on the new computer, but for some reason it is only loading 11GB of them when there should be well over 20GB of songs. I have my preferences pointing to the location of the music on the share drive, just as I have my old computer set up. I have tried clicking 'Add folder to library' both with the 'Copy files to itunes music folder when adding to library' checked, and with it not checked. I have also tried dragging and dropping this folder into itunes, and consolidating the library with the same result. I am able to play the songs that are not being added in itunes by clicking on the file on the hard drive. They open up and play in itunes with out any issues, and then appear there as if they were added successfully. I noticed these folders are listed as 'Read only,' but all of the files that did add successfully are listed as 'Read only' as well. I have also tried creating a smart playlist with the 50,000 most recently added songs, but that did not pull any of the missing songs.
How can I get these songs display in itunes on the new computer?

I have no idea if this will help, but I also have my library on an external drive. I thought this would allow my to carry the drive back & forth between work & home without authorizing a second computer, but it did not. When I took the drive to work, it reimported everything, then when I hooked it back up at home, it reimported again as if it were a new computer. Are the songs you are unable to display/import ones you have purchased from the iTunes store? My only suggestion is that you may need to authorize the computer.

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@CPL_STEELE: can you try to post these specifications in your own topic? (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=985161&tstart=0)
It's not very nice to take over someone else this topic, because the topic starter (Ganieda) could have another problem than you. It's also very confusing for everyone who is trying to help because there are now 2 problems in the same topic.
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