I manually moved my itunes folder-can't get back my library

I manually copied my whole itunes folder from *media drive b* to *drive a (the mac osx system drive)* since I needed to free up space on my media drive. The original itunes library file and the itunes music library.xml file created 6/2005 are still intact on the media drive with all the music. How do I force itunes to see this again. It is seeing an old itunes library I made instead of my current library.
Help !
Thanks

Here's the fix... I did overwrite the Itunes library file data that had all my playlists and other data. But to get back my songs and movies, all I had to do was drag the iTunes music folder onto iTunes and in 10 minutes walla, there was all my tunes and vids... Whew !!.. Play counts, date added etc, all wiped and starting form scratch. That's ok. *Lesson learned; use itune's functions to move your library from drive to drive !*

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