Installed iTunes 9 & it can't find my music

Hi,
I just installed iTunes 9. It displays my whole library, but next to every single song there's an exclamation mark. I know that that means iTunes can't find that particular song. I have all of my music on an external HD, and haven't had problems with it before this. How do I get iTunes to find my library again?!
Please don't tell me I have to drag and drop ALL the music on my external. I have 10K songs.....ARGH!!
daniella

Try browsing through your music folder first to see if there is more than one .itl file. iTunes probrably created you a new library and could have thrown your old one into a folder called previous iTunes libraries. They are also bad to put previous iTunes libraries inside previous iTunes libraries. Make sure you look in every folder. If you find more than one, look at the date they were created to determine which is which. You can also tell by the size of the file. Your old library will be much larger than the new one that was just created. After that, open with the shift key again, and be sure to select "iTunesLibrary.itl" not the folder where your music files are stored. This really should work. I'm not sure what happened before.

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