Itunes Music Files Lost

I recently bought a new PC. I had already copied all my files and folders from my old pc, including itunes, to a backup hard drive. When I copied back all my files to the new PC, all the files were there, except the itunes music. The library is there, but the music files are not. When I click on a song in the library I get an error saying that "The song cannot be used because the original file is not found, do you wish to locate it?". Now, I've read a number of forums saying that iTunes is prone to moving music when you change to a new system set up, and is not very good at finding it. However, I've searched high and low using the search tools in vista and I am fairly certain that the songs are not there. I have done the same searches in my backup drive and they are not there also. What could have happened?
I should point out that none of my music is purchased from Itunes, it is my entire CD collection of 2500+ songs which was ripped into itunes. It seems that apple is happy to suggest solutions for 'lost' music if you purchased from itunes, but there is little or no support for people who are using itunes to organise and hold a cd collection.
To make matters worse, I connected my Ipod to itunes without realising the songs were missing and now I have lost all the music from my Ipod as well.
I know that I have probably been stupid and done something wrong, but Itunes does not seem to be particularly user-friendly when it comes to moving it's files and folders from one Windows device to another. I have a strong feeling that I am going to have to start all over again, unless anyone can offer me some advice on how to get my old music files back?

wow i am in the middle of a very similar situation. i bought a new computer...had the store burn all itunes songs onto a disk, from old computer. put disk into new computer drive and downloaded all songs. now, they are all showing on my new computer harddrive but they won't play on itunes. when i click on a song, itunes comes up but nothing happens. i have done everything that the itunes online customer service dept can tell me to do. nothing is wrong with my new computer, the cd/dvd drive...the drivers, nothing. my new computer is now authorized with my itunes account. all of our ipods are now authorized with the new computer. the store where i got new computer says maybe the songs are licensed with my old computer. he says its all about where they were oribinally licensed. i have had it...spent HOURS trying to figure this out.

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