Exclamation points to the extreme.

My internal hard drive crash last week and I replaced it with a new one. I have most of my music on my iPod (an additional 40 gb not on my iPod but somewhere on an external that I can locate later.) Anyway, I transferred over the music from my iPod into a desktop folder, and then into my iTunes. And then I did something crazy. In an attempt to get back my playlists and playcounts, I overwrote the new iTunes database .xml and .tl files with the ones I'd saved from my crashed hard drive. I have all my playcounts and playlists back except--I have about 15,000 exclamation points next to the songs. I was under the impression iTunes would automatically relocate all the songs in a folder if I just chose a few, but it's not recognizing more than one at a time and is making me do every individual song. I'm noticing that most (but not all) of the missing songs are labeled in the finder by the four letter iPod tags (like, ABDF.mp3), and when I drag them into iTunes, they take back on the correct name and artist. I'm not sure if they were always the four letter tags from the moment I took it from my iPod, or if that happened only when I overwrote the database file.
I've been going for hours and I've only just started on the Cs. After finding no answers on Google about my very daunting situation, I've decided it's probably worth it to ask and see if anyone has any recommendations of something to do. I'm realizing at this point I've done something wrong to get my playlists and playcounts back. So maybe my main question is--what was the right way to do this so maybe I can start back over? And is there anything I can do now to salvage what I've already started?
I'm using an iPod classic and a 2010 MacBook Pro. The original iTunes files were from whatever software I had originally purchased the Mac with in 2010. Now I have Mavericks if that makes any sort of difference.
Thanks!

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