HELP! Large portion of my music library doesn't work!

I recently got a new MacBook, so I moved the location of the music library. Now, tons of music doesn't work. The mp3 files exist but don't show up in iTunes and can't be opened by iTunes or Quicktime, or any other program I've tried. In the finder, my itunes library folder is 12.78 gb larger than what shows up in iTunes. Therefore, 12.78 gb of my music is not working!! Please help me!
Thank you
MacBook 2.0 Ghz (White)   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Go to your Home\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music folder. Click it once. Click File and choose Get Info (or ⌘-I). Go to Ownership & Permissions, and click Details.
Make sure YOU are the owner and can read & write in EVERY category, and Apply to the entire contents fo the folder. (This may take a while) then try to re-add the missing files. One in a while I'll download something from an MP3 "buysite" and it will be "locked up" until I modify the permissions, allowing me to access my purchased songs.

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