Itunes 10 lost song titles/album info

I upgraded to itunes 10. A week later I moved my library to an external drive following the instructions in the support section. I have done it twice before
successfully.
When I open itunes it is completely empty. There are no titles/albums/playlists.
The bar on the left shows playlists names, but when I click on them nothing appears.
I am able to play the tracks from the folders in finder, they play in itunes, the name of the song appears in the player. But this issue makes my itunes player application pretty useless.
I tried uploading itunes 10 again. still nothing. I am in a bind.
any suggestions?

No, iTunes remembers the info from when it was burned.
Insert the CD on the original computer.
iTunes menu Advanced -> Submit CD track names.
When you insert it in iTunes on another computer, it should look up the info at Gracenote.

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