Itunes greyed out; can't play on computer

Got a new computer. Went to iTunes and discovered my purchased tunes were in bold. I could see all imported tunes on my ipod but they were greyed out. Did a little research and discovered this is to prevent music pirating but there is a work around for legitimate purposes. So I transferred all the music from my ipod to my PC. (I dragged the ipod music folders into the Windows Media Player). I played a couple of them and it seemed all was going well. then I went to iTunes to see what was going on there. I couldn't find any music, purchased or imported without going to the ipod. All the songs were there but greyed out. Now I can't even play them on the computer. I get a message," Window Media Player cannot find the file." As it stands now I can't do anything with my music on iTunes ( play, move songs, create playlist, etc) or on my computer. Fortunately I didn't screw up my ipod, but of course I can't rearrange anything on it without first doing it on iTunes and the syncing.

Any help here?
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