Converting from Windows to MAC

So I am moving everthing from my windows environment to my new MAC environment.....
I was using a windows home server to to house all my music files, the PC with iTunes had a mapped drive to the folder with the music files.
on the advice from the genuis at my local apple store I copied all the music files to a USB hard drive, then connected the USB drive to the MAC and copied all the files into the music folder on my MAC
When open iTunes it does not show the files or folders and I can't find the "import" command on the new iTunes. If I search for a song or artist it does find it and I can manually add it to the library from the search box. I am not intersted in clicking on 3500 songs to manually add them all.
Thoughts, advice, comments?
Every thing I have used so far with Apple just works and I love that, so I know there is a way to do this without driving back down to the genius bar and asking them.
Thanks in advance

This article may help.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1146958/move_itunes_windows_mac.html
The genius guy was almost right but you need to select the folder above to copy ie the iTunes folder
There are some other preparatory steps in there to.

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I would also STRONGLY recommend you look at this Apple Mac Basics article:
http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/pctomac/
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Greetings.
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Anyone here who might know a great deal about both? Would there be a direct + in using mac instead of windows?
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Thanks in advance to anyone taking their time to answer.
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Amy,
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