Best way to reconnect link from songs in iTunes to music library?

Recently my hard drive crashed and I lost my iTunes Music Library. In order to restore it, I purchased a new external hard drive and used the PodUtil software to copy all of my songs from my iPod to my new hard drive. This worked great but I am now seeing the dreaded exclamation point next to all of my songs. I did change the location of the library pointer in my preferences to my new iTunes folder and I thought that would solve the problem but it didn't. When I tried playing some of the songs, the links were restored and the exclamation points disappeared. However, I have noticed that many of them still have a broken link and I determined that it's due to the fact that the PodUtil program re-catalogued some of the songs with different folder and file names and iTunes is not recognizing them because the original file path is different. Does anyone know the best way to proceed with restoring these songs without losing the library data for the songs (play count, rating, last played, etc.)? Do I have to relocate each song one by one?

So when I realized that iTunes wasn't recognizing the songs because the path/filename was modified, I tried to change the folders/filenames to what they were before they were modified. (I do a periodic export from iTunes and used my most recent export to determine the previous path.) When I corrected the folders/filenames to what iTunes recognized, the songs could be played and the exclamation points disappeared. Going forward, should I do this re-cataloging (restoring the folder/filename) for each unrecognized song, or should I re-locate the song through iTunes? The latter sounds like the easier method although when I tried doing it for one of the songs it appear to create a duplicate of the song. Anyone know why?

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