Bought a new computer and want to recover old iTunes?

Our old computer we had blew its power supply, so we bought a new one. We have a Free Agent Go Flex Drive that saved all our old files on it, and I wanted to recover my old iTunes program as is. I am a statistician, and one of my projects I was hired to do was to tabulate a study on the "Times Played" section of an iTunes library. All I want to do is load the old iTunes onto my new computer from the drive, so that I have my library and statistical data intact. I tried loading the old iTunes, but it said I couldn't because "iTunes Library can not be opened because it was created by a newer version of iTunes". Is there any way I can just use the newer version of iTunes my computer downloaded to run my old library as it was, meaning with all my songs added with the correct number of "Times Played" values and all the other specifics?

iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music [library] to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Open iTunes and immediately hold down the Option (alt) key (shift on Windows), then guide it to the new location of the library.

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