ITunes 8 on Leopard 10.5.7 won't play any songs

Hi,
So I recently backed up my whole computer (I was running 10.4). I did a fresh install of Leopard and then I copied all my songs to the new installation and let iTunes 8 discover the songs on my computer. They have all been successfully copied to the iTunes folder and I was even able to copy them over to my iPhone and they will play fine on that. But on my computer, they will not play. I just finished using Disk Utility and did a repair on the hard drive, but the songs still won't play. Please help. Thanks.
Rashiki

Alright. So that was kinda lame. I went to System Preferences and saw that the OS didn't even recognize that I had speakers! So I rebooted and now it works. Go figure.

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