Lost iTunes ratings and playlists

Used Migration Assistant after installing Leopard. It moved my tunes but not the ratings and the playlists. Tried recopying from backup, same result.
Any ideas?
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Hey I was searching for some information and I saw you had a partial answer to what I needed help for. I was wondering if you could help me as I've been looking for quite a few days now still needing help... I can get my xml and itl file but what do I do???
I recently purchased an 80gb Ipod because my old Ipod's (3g 40gb) battery was nearly dead. I don't store my songs on my computer but I still have them on my old ipod. What I want to do is I want to transfer EVERYTHING from my old to new ipod (playlist, playcount, date of last played, ratings). Basically have the same data from my old ipod on my newer one. But I mean when I transfer my songs through iTunes and all, the data that I want to transfer as well doesn't carry over, just the songs (play count, ratings, etc. goes blank). Can you help me please!?! How can I transfer play counts, ratings, dates, and playlist?
PLEASE HELP!

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