Library not found after upgrading to iTunes 7, old libraries don't work

For the second time since iTunes 7 was released, I've been asked to upgrade and did so without issue on the first day of upgrading. When I shut my computer down and came back the next day, however, the library is not found when I attempt to launch iTunes. Before, I simply reverted to iTunes 6 and copy/pasted a "previous library" as the current library. Now, though, I have a new iPod and it needs iTunes 7 to run. I've tried copy/pasting a previous library to the iTunes Library folder with no luck.
90% of my music is in the .m4a format so I need iTunes to listen! Not to mention, I need it to update my brand new iPod. I really need help on this, can someone give any advice? Thanks in advance.

johnc86,
Are you following the instructions from this article in the Apple Knowledge Base, in particular the renaming of the .itl file from the Previous Libraries folder?

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