Library: Did I screw up?

I haven't made any new purchases from itunes in 2 years, and I reinstalled my OS this summer. I backed up my library (library.xml i hope is the backup) and reinstalled itunes, but didn't run itunes again until today when I purchased 50 new songs. When I opened up itunes it downloaded the latest itunes version and searched for all my music. I didn't even think, it only pulled the ones that I had burned from cd. It is obvious now that it did not restore my library (duh because i didn't tell it to) but well I made purchases and downloaded them as I realized.
The question: If I restore the library now, will I lose the new songs I just bought, or is there any way to get both my old stuff and new stuff in the same library?

That article annoys me, because rebuilding the itunes library from the XML file loses all the Date Added info, and they don't mention that.
The main library file is the ITL file - that is the one you want to make regular backups from.
+What I mean is, if I didn't heed this important note, have I made an irreversible error?+
No, it's not irreversible.
Now that you have restored to your older library, your newest additions will be missing. Just add them back in.

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Paul Oldewurtel wrote:
I have a MacBook Pro 2.0 Intel Core Duo. It's a few years old but still works fine. Back in August of 2009, I had upgraded the harddrive myself to a Seagate 500 GB drive - had no problems (though it was one of the drives Apple had trouble with in the newer MacBook Pros). On 12/23/09, my hard drive crashed.
I have four Seagate Momentus 7200.4 drives (almost certainly the same 500GB drive you mention) and two of the four have already failed. One failed within 6 hours of being installed. I'm not impressed with this drive and don't blame Apple for dumping it.
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