Itunes installed on new laptop & i'm stuck, help please!?

I got a new laptop yesterday & wanted to transfer my itunes library to my new computer.
I plugged in my iphone & it's only transfered purchases from my iphone into itunes. None of the purchase i made on my old computer's itunes are showing.
I made 3 purchases on itunes on my new laptop, synched my iphone but the new purchases haven't transferred to my iphone!!
What can i do? I'm missing around 100 songs in my itunes library.
My phone has all the music on it that it had before i plugged it in to my new laptop

+Is there any way of keeping the playcount?+
Yes, it's easy. Get the itunes database file from your old laptop.
The easiest way is to copy the entire c:\users\username\music folder, which will include all the subfolders. The file
iTunes Library.itl
is in that folder. It's what holds the ratings, play counts, etc. If you have that, you won't get the message about your iphone being synced to another PC.
There's another folder you need if you have iphone apps and don't want to lose the app data. Ask over in the iphone forums about that, as I don't have an iphone.

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Unchecked the playlists, Synced to remove all songs, rechecked them, synced again. NO RESULT
Added the songs manually by dragging and dropping them into my iphone. NO RESULT
Eventually, I cracked, and went for a restore, which luckily did the trick.
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It's not a unique situation - happens all the time, smaller hard drives getting filled up.
It's also easy to fix. I just moved my itunes content to a bigger hard drive.
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Nothing did go wrong, but I'd have it in case anything DID go wrong. That file holds ratings, playcounts, Date Added, and other metadata.
Second, in itunes change the preferences > advanced tab to tell itunes to put everything on G:
Set the itunes folder location to something like G:Media or G:iTunes
This will affect all FUTURE additions to itunes and not do anything to the existing locations.
Make sure the checkbox for "Keep itunes organized" is NOT checked. I also left the "Copy files when adding" unchecked.
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Itunes installed on new laptop & i'm stuck, help please!?

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