How to restore songs after reformatting drive ?

Hi ... I just done a clean installment of windows xp and now I need to restore my Itunes songs back into my account . What I have done before reformatting my drive is shown at the link below . Could someone explain what I need to do now to restore my songs back ? Thanks
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1438101&tstart=15
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Hi Niel . Sorry for being a newbie here but I'm not sure if I understand you . Can I just copy the Itunes folder which I copy onto my external drive back into this place ?
Documents and Settings\Myname\My Documents\My Music\iTunes
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