ITunes not showing all songs.

I recently had to reinstall iTunes and imported my old library.
Library is stored in default location of "C:\Documents and Settings\Larry\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media".
When I view the iTunes Media folder in Windows Explorer the size is listed as 227 GB and 80,304 files (in 5,948 folders)
After adding the above iTunes Media folder to iTunes (File>Add Folder to Library) I only have 7,245 items and 39.63 GB of songs.
Any idea why iTunes is not recognizing so many of my songs.
Also, the vast majority of these songs are from CD's I ripped to my old pc. Very few were purchased via iTunes.
Thanks.

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