ITunes won't open the library I backed up to my ext. HDD?

I recently reformatted my windows 7 Acer laptop, my itunes library was all consolidated and I copied the iTunes folder from music to the hdd, after reinstalling windows I downloaded iTunes, copied and replaced the itunes folder in music with the one on my drive, opened it with shift and chose the library but iTunes will not open my library it just opens to a empty iTunes? All my media is in the folder and will open and play in iTunes if I double click on a individual song, movie ECT.. How do I get my itunes back?

I am having the exact same problem. Checked firewall and it does not appear to be the problem. I have uninstalled and then reinstalled and the bar to load iTunes will get about halfway and then go away and I am left with a white page with iTunes Store as the only script. It was happening last evening as well...

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Open up your My Documents\My Music folder.
We will first backup the current version. Rename iTunes Library.itl to something like iTunes Library.itl.bak.
Go into the My Documents\My Music\Previous iTunes Libraries folder.
You may see several files that start with iTunes Library and have a date included in the name. Copy the newest file in the folder.
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