After time machine transfer, I have no iTunes. What do I do?

My MacBookPro crashed and died.  Luckily, I was using Time Machine and transfered to another Pro.  When I opened iTunes, it was not able to open the itunes.rtl file.  I changed it to .old and opened iTunes, but obviously...nothing of mine was there.  No Playlists!
What do I do to get my old stuff back?

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