Changed itunes library to new laptop - wont open!

Having recently moved home and purchasing a new laptop i have downloaded itunes to my new laptop and copied my library from my old laptop to my external hard drive.
after installing itunes on my new laptop i copied the library to the itunes folder in the programme files folder as instructed to do so from the apple website now once it has completed and i try to open itunes it is telling me the library was created with a newer version of itunes so can not open but i've downloaded the latest itunes software, any suggestions people??

thank you for this it did work and i've managed to open it but once it opened all my music on my playlists has exclimation marks next to them to say the files can not be found. any ideas??

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