ITunes not seeing library files

I finally got a new computer, and so finally transferred my iTunes data from my work laptop to my new computer.
The songs appear to have made it ok, but the data files did not, meaning I've lost all my play counts, ratings and playlists (of which the first two are the most important).
Since I'm on dialup, I did have to go back to the CD version of iTunes I had (6.0.4) instead of 6.0.5 that was on the laptop - is this the issue?
Is there any way to get this to work?
(I still have the data on the laptop, and on my backup external drive. Whew.)

... I did have to go back to the CD version of iTunes I had (6.0.4) instead of 6.0.5 that was on the laptop - is this the issue?
No, that shouldn't be the issue.
It sounds like your iTunes Library Files didn't get transferred over.
So assuming they were in their default location on your work computer ( C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents\My Music\iTunes ) you want to move them to that same location on your new computer. Note that this will only work if your music files themselves were/are in the same location on both computers.

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