Can't automatically play songs after moving music

I used my iPod to move my music to a new computer by following the instructions in article #300173 (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173)
All appeared to go well. The library and playlists looked liked they are on the first computer but when I go to play a song(s) on the second computer, I get an error message saying:
"The song "song title" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
When I say "Yes", I'm taken to the iTunes Music folder in My Music, where I then have to MANUALLY associate each song to it's original. This is extremely incovenient because I have 500+ songs at this time.
Any ideas on how to automatically associate each song?
Thanks so much.
Lucia August

I'm having the same problem. No one who knows how to fix this?

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