ITunes playlist file

Can someone tell me the location of the playlist file? I need to restore my playlist.
Here's the story:
I was completing backups of my Macbook to an external drive using SuperDuper!. I just finished rebuilding my Macbook to complete a fresh restart of the OS and clean out a bunch of junk I had installed over the past year. I've completed all OS and application updates. I am now at the point of restoring all of my data, including my music.
iTunes has already been setup to view my Music library with all of my restored music included, I just need to restore my playlist so that I do not have to recreate everything. Currently, my music library is stored on a different external drive and iTunes can see this library with no problems.
How can I recreate my playlist easily?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. I did find a thread that states that the playlist file is in the following directory: /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist
However, I tried replacing this file with the file I had backed up on my external drive but it did not restore my playlist in iTunes. I did confirm the file (by viewing with Textedit) had my playlist in it.

hi Ed,
i don't beleive there are anything else to come. the playlists info are stored in the iTunes library files. if you open it and that you playlist are no longer there... you may start to redo them.
if your playlist are very important, you may consider this method of backing them up; http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93763

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