Importing iTunes Music After Carbonite Restore

Trying to free up some space, I did a clean install a few weeks ago after backing up almost my entire HD, including the 41,000+ songs I had in iTunes. Today, after two solid weeks of running my MacBook 24/7, I finished restoring all of my music, which is when I finally realized I hadn't bothered to read Carbonite's instructions as thoroughly as I probably should have.
Basically, I went ahead and re-installed iTunes BEFORE I finished the restore, so that when I open it up, only my cloud music is visible in my library, which is where the fun begins...
My music is indeed on my laptop, living comfortably in it's original iTunes>Music folder, under User Eric, on The Spicy Meatball (the name I gave my HD because I once thought it was "cute" or something). When I open up iTunes from the Meatball (or from the more recently installed iTunes), same thing...no music except for the cloud stuff. Confusingly, while my MacBook SAYS my music is in my iTunes library, iTunes says it isn't whenever I open the app.
I initially just shrugged my shoulders and began importing all 41,000+ songs into my library, but when I got to around 3,700 or so, I noticed I was really only duplicating everything, and would run out of disk space long before it finished importing. In essence, I may have just screwed myself by either not seeing their directions, or buying their product in the first place, and have wasted $70.
I'm not even sure what I'm asking, aside from whether or not there's a work-around here I'm not seeing that would allow me to get my iTunes library back to it's pristine, OCD-level state.
Thanks. :-)

BUMMER!
The info displayed by iTunes comes from the ID3 tag which is part of the file sitself. If the ID3 tags are intact then you should see the artist/song/ etc when you add the song fille back to iTunes. Do a drop n drag of a couple of files to the iTunes window and see what happens. Once the tune is back in iTunes then go look for a script from Doug Adams site and that will rename the song files based on ID3 information. No sense doing individyually as there is script that will do it for you. As for the files that play for 20 seconds ..... well they might be scrambled beyond repair. I always do B/U of my tunes as I have a huge amount of *** time invested in managing them.
Hope this helps a little.
MJ

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