Hard Drive Crashed... Library Files Not Recovered

The hard drive that contained my iTunes library crashed on me the other day. I have been able to recover all of the musical content from the drive but not the actual itunes.itl and .xml files or any recent versions. There are lot of .tmp files that I have recovered as well.
I also have a copy of some of my library on my iPod (auto sync wasn't turned on so it's not the whole library). What is the best way of recreating the library files? Is it safe to just create a new library and then drag and drop in all of my music? What effect will this have on syncing with my iPod?
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

+apart from updating the file paths+
Not sure what you mean by this, and it's important. itunes doesn't 'update' file paths. If both your old and new setup were using itunes defaults, it should be OK.
+just reimport the whole iTunes folder that I have recovered and would it just be a simple case of searching for duplicates and then deleting them out of the library?+
Also, it depends on your setting of "Keep itunes media folder organized".
If that is checked, you can reimport the itunes folder again and itunes will skip the exact duplicates. If it DOES make any dupes, they should be easy ti find using the Date Added field and Show Duplicates.

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