ITunes doesn't recognize entire library...

Hi Everyone,
I recently had a problem with Snow Leopard on my MacBook and ended up having to wipe the partition. I have XP installed through Boot Camp and backed everything up onto an external NTFS formatted drive. I copied my entire iTunes folder to the drive, and now I'm trying to move it back.
The iTunes folder copies just fine, it's around 78GBs and copies the correct amount. I can look through the folder before opening iTunes (I deleted the existing iTunes folder since nothing was in it from the clean install) and all my music, tv shows, etc. is there. Upon opening iTunes everything is listed correctly, but around 3/4s of the songs have the exclamation point next to them asking me to locate the file.
Going back to the iTunes folder under Music shows that most of the media files disappear - I certainly didn't delete them and they were there before iTunes opened.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-MRCUR

MRCUR wrote:
Yes, right after the copy finished I looked through the Music folder (it seems like movies & tv shows are unaffected) and only the As and Bs (of artists) are there. Everything else is gone, but the folder size (of 77.17GB) stays the same throughout the copy and after the files disappear.
That's all very strange isn't it.
I will see if I can do that and re-import all of the music. Is there any way to save my playlists doing so? At this point I don't really care, I'd just rather have the music back on my MacBook.
When you add music to the library in this manner, the playlists are unaffected. The playlists are contained in the library database documents in the itunes folder, which should still be intact. When you add to the library, the library database is updated to reflect new music, but that's it.
That said, if you've tried to play your playlists without the music in the music folder, the playlists may no longer be what they once were.
If you have your library database documents backed up to the external drive you might be able to retrieve them from there if those on your Macbook no longer function. But this would need to happen after you get your music back.
This is tricky stuff that should serve to remind us how important a good backup is.

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