Can't open songs once transferred to new computer. Please help!

Hello
I followed the helpful advice on these boards and used an external hard drive to transfer my iTunes library from an old PC to an new one. My problem now is I see the songs the songs in my music folder but it seems that I would have to import them one at a time to get them into my new library. There has got to be an easier way that I am missing. Thanks in advance for your help.

I have a similar problem.
I removed and re-installed Itunes and Ipod software as per the Apple site recommendations because my ipod would not connect to itunes. I re-installed both software, opened itunes and had no library at all showing and my view config was all defaults. I copied and renamed the "itunes library xxx-xx-xx.itl" file from the previous library folder in my music back and it restored my library and playlists (yeah!).
My problem is that many (25 to 30%) of my 10,000+ songs have an exclamation point next to them and the library can't find them. It can find the rest of the songs (including some but not all songs in the same CD's). All of the songs are in the same folder tree on an external usb hard drive. I can manually locate and connect the songs but this would take 100 years to do. I tried to consolodate the library but this did not help. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Greg Florio
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Dell inspiron 9200 Windows XP Pro music library on external drive

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