ITunes will not Import Songs

So, I'm on my cousin's Windows laptop, and he wants me to put the songs back onto his computer from his iPod. However, not being very technical, he did not realize that the songs were still on his Hard Drive.
So I found the songs on the HDD, and then in iTunes 7 I went to File>Add to Folder to Library, then I told it to add the folder to iTunes. It appeared to be registering (going through all the songs really fast, like sensing em, you know).
Anyways, sure enough, they did not show up in iTunes. So, I went and tried to add one of the subfolders to iTunes. That did not work either.
I am wondering what should I do? Should I add the songs from his iPod back onto another place on his Hard Drive and just try to import those songs? Or do I not have to bother and I'm just missing one little thing to get the current songs into iTunes?
Thanks for the help! I appreciate it!

Well, I just imported the songs from the iPod back onto the computer and added those to the library. For whatever reason, it worked!

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hi Sarah!
From importing CD's perfectly, iTunes now stops from importing the very last song of every CD that I put in. It works right up until the last second of the last song then freezes, forcing me to ctrl/alt/del iTunes
gack. okay, here's a trick from the 4.9 days that sometimes worked in similar circumstances:
RGWK, "Itunes crashes on last song of every CD" #6, 07:22am Sep 7, 2005 CDT
... but post back if you get no joy with that ...
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gack. okay, here's my latest information pack on the "no sound" issues:
b noir, "Is Apple ever going to solve our problems?" #1, 10:28am Sep 25, 2005 CDT
but that's two weeks out of date ... for new developments, check in at the "double-click quick fix" thread referenced in the info pack.
it
b may
also be worth downloading and saving a standalone QT 7 installer to your hard drive, and then running an installation from your hard drive (rather than "online"). experimental suggestion, though. i've see this work for
b precisely one
person with a "no sound" issue on a 5.0.1.x upgrade, and other factors apart from the QT 7 standalone install may have contributed to returning Donald's sound. (we certainly did a lot of other things with him):
b noir, "iTunes will not run" #24, 06:00pm Oct 9, 2005 CDT
keep us posted.
love, b

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