Had to change hard drives after failure... How to restore iTunes library?

Hello-
I had to install a new internal hard drive yesterday in my PowerBook, and am wanting to get my iTunes library onto it. I am still able to access files and folders from my old hard drive, fortunately. In order to restore my library, can I simply just copy my iTunes library from my old drive to my new one, or will there be permissions issues, etc? Thanks in advance-

I was able to do this successfully and see my library w/o trouble. However, iTunes no longer sees my computer as being 'authorized' to play my previously purchased music... Is there a simple way to correct this? I also started another topic related to this here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1124032&tstart=0

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