Itunes will not reconize music in file

itunes will not recognize music files in new computer. I have done everything in the help video and in the instructions. I have re-download itunes also, and restarted the computer many times.

Dave, you are a god among mere mortal men!
I had used the check to only load certain tracks on my iPod mini that my kids use, while loading everything on my iPod 60GB.
I guess I should come up with a different method for that.
Thank you for clueing me in on how the checkmark works.
I'm a happy man once again.
Mac mini & Power Mac G5 & PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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