Computer crashed. Saved songs on D drive and put in new computer. Now what?

My computer went down for the count. C drive went bad. I was lucky in that my iTunes music folder was on my second internal hard drive, the D drive. Got a new computer, installed the D drive into the new machine, and the folder is still there. When I open up the files, most of the songs are now M4A files which I never heard of and the computer doesn't know what to do with them either. I haven't downloaded and installed iTunes yet. I am nervous. All I read about is people plugging their iPod into a new computer and all of the music on the iPod is gone. What is the proper sequence for me to download iTunes, tell it where the music files are and then show iPod that all is well and it doesn't have to have a lobotomy? Also, will I be able to retain the information, such as album covers, equilizer settings, genres, etc? Where is this info kept? And what are M4A files? Shouldn't they be MPEG files? I think that is what they used to be. Enough questions? As you can see I am still recovering from computer ****. Can anyone help?
Thanks, Dave Schwartz

M4A files are aac music files, either those you bought from apple or those you ripped with itunes if you had aac selected as the format to use.
To restore your library, install itunes 7, then hold down the shift key when starting it up. When it asks you to create a new library or select an existing library, click on "Choose Library" and navigate to the library file on your D drive, it should be called "iTunes Library.itl".
If you can't find a library there, return to your My music folder and create it there. Once itunes starts with an empty library, select "add folder to library" on the file menu and then select the folder containing all your music. Itunes will add it all to the new library.
Once you get the library up in itunes, attempt to play one of your purchased songs and log in when itunes asks you to. This will authorize your new computer to play your purchased tunes.
Once you have your full library back in itunes you can safely plug in your ipod. itunes will probably reload it completely, but all should be well once it's done.

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