Help, unsucessful back up restore of library.

Got a new iPod 120gb for Christmas. Plugged into computer and found not compatable with 10.3.9. My computer is iMac G4 800mhz and can not handle the new 10.5 so I purchased a 10.4 off of ebay and it was a Server version. I was told that I could not just upgrade and so would need to back up everything before install, so I did. I backed up iLife and iTunes both just to be safe. After installing the 10.4, I upgraded it to 10.4.11 and then installed my iLife 04 and upgraded it. All upgrades were via software upgrade. The previous version of iTunes that I had on my computer was iTunes7, I now have iTunes8. I tried to restore the iLife via Backup and the 7 DVD's it was on. All but parts 2 and 3 would install, but part 2 gave me an error 36 message and part 3 wouldn't do anything. Then I tried to restore just the iTunes library via the 4 DVDs that it is on and all the music shows up on each disk when I put it in, but will only download about half of the library. Now I only have 605 out of at least 1200 songs. Please help me. Most of this music was purchased from the iTunes store.

Thanks. I tried that, even deauthorizing and reauthorizing, but it didn't work. It will restore some of the songs then it gets to an audio book and quits. I tried skipping the book, but it won't let me and then everything left on the disc won't load. The crazy thing is, when I put in the disc, everything shows up on the disc. It is like it is there, but will not fully restore. Very Frustrating.

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From the top of the page where the scripts live...
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