Authorize use of music on new computer

Hello, I'm new to this forum.
I'm not sure if I'm using the correct verbiage of "Authorize" it to use it.
I have been using iTunes 6 (I believe that was the version) on an old Compaq computer with Windows XP. The computer crashed and after changing hard drives, I now have a new computer, again running Windows XP.
I was able to slave my old drive but have had very poor luck getting my data, songs and such, copied over to my new hard drive. I should say that I've completed the transfer but it's just taken many hours of screwing around to do so. I've had to recover my new computer a couple time when I unhook my slave drive. I now have all my 29 gig of music on my new computer and have downloaded and installed iTunes 7.0.2 on my new computer.
When I started up iTunes the first time it looked for all my music and imported it from my hard drive, or whatever it does to show it up in the library. It all shows up in the library but only a small portion of it is available to me. When I double click a song to play it it says I'm not authorized to use it. These are all CD's I own and have copied to my computer. I've been using these for my iPod for about a year. I have 40 gig monochrome music only, I think it's a third generation. My iPod is still working fine with about 5,700 song loaded. I really don't want to have to import all these CD's.
How do I set my new computer to use the music I own and have located on my new hard drive?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Dan
HP e7560n Windows XP

I'm presuming you still have the old iTunes folder intact on your old (slave) hard drive? If so, you haven't imported anything new since that folder was in use, and you have iTunes 7 installed and running, try this:
Locate the iTunes folder in your My Documents -> My Music folder on your primary (new) hard drive and delete it.
Drag the entire iTunes folder (containing the iTunes Library and iTunes.xml files and the iTunes Music folder) from your old drive to the My Documents -> My Music folder on your main drive.
Hold down the Shift key and launch iTunes. When you get the dialog box that says "Choose iTunes Library", navigate to the iTunes folder in My Documents -> My Music and select it.
With luck, you'll be back in business.
Hope this helps.
BTW, the fact that you say you keep having to recover your computer when you disconnect the slave drive might indicate that you have things misset when you're connecting the old drive. Make sure that the jumpers are correctly set, and of course that you're not disconnecting the slave with the power on.

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