Itunes Read Only

Hi,
I am trying to import my Itunes library from my old computer onto my new laptop. I perform a restore from dvd which all goes well, but when I shutdown Itunes and reopen it again everything is gone. A check of the windows folders shows that all of the music is in the correct folders, but Itunes won't display any of it. The Itunes interface is the same as when I first installed it. Its like it is read only somehow, excpet that I know it has loaded the music onto the hardrive ?
I even tried turning on Genius, which worked ok, but again when I shut Itunes down and reopened it Genius was off again.
Anyone know what might be happening ? Is Vista somehow not letting me update the Itunes files?
Thanks
Anyone

Welcome to AD!
I don't think it's Vista. I suspect it is some Vaio software like other Vaio owners have discovered, seems to deliberately erase the itunes library file.
Here is an older topic on that, set your AD display options to threaded and read most of the posts that explain different ways to get around it.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277#8537277

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