Corrupted my iTunes Library fiddling with Vista User IDs

Had been using iTunes on my new laptop for a month, having succesfully copied my library (22gb) from my old computer. Then I realised that my C:\ drive was filling up rapidly and I had not been using my E:\ drive. I followed instructions I found online to move my data onto the E:\ drive. That all seemed OK until I noticed that the data had been simply copied and was still filling up my C:\ drive (iTunes, being so large, was the main culprit).
The iTunes Music folder location, in Advances Preferences was pointing correctly (for each separate Vista user account) to E:\username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music. So I reasoned I could delete any iTunes folders I found on C:\. This is what I did.
The biggest mistake I made was not testing everything worked OK straight afterwards. This was two weeks ago and I have only just gone to play music that I can see is still there in iTunes. The music will not play – it cannot find the location. (There are a handful of files that do work, that were downloaded after I did all this.)
I did a search for *.m4 and the search results shows them sitting in C:\Useraccounts\Public\Public Music\iTunes Music\artistname. However, if you look in the folder it says it is empty. I cannot get either the library or the individual files to point back to this folder.
I cannot see any iTunes library files in the Recycle Bin for any user account.
At worst case I guess I can rebuild everything from my iPod which has not been synced since I messed around with the user accounts, or from a complete backup I took a week before this happened. However, if I have to follow this route I guess I will lose the items I have downloaded since. (By the way, I do not have the iPod set for disk use.)
Can anyone please help me:
a) rebuild the corrupted library?
b) ensure afterwards that all iTunes data is off the C:\ drive?

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