Lots of music missing from library

Hello,
I keep all my music on an external HD (not enough space on the internal). I just installed iTunes 7.02. But for some reason, it won't display the music on the external HD in my library. I tried the Apple instructions for re-creating my library, and that didn't work. If I go to Change Music Folder Location under Preferences, it shows that it's already pointing to the external. How do I get iTunes working properly again?
Thanks for any help.
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) iMac 400Mhz SE, Video iPod 60GB, JBL Creature, Airport Express

I have the SAME problem! I have over 6,000 songs on my ipod (were on my computer) until I pulled songs from my external drive into my itunes music folder. Now, my internal HD says I have all the music there (approx. 40 GB) but itunes doesn't see all of them. I tried dragging my whole music folder into the itunes window and it only copied around 2,000 for some reason. I REALLY need all my music back- it took a REALLY long time getting all those songs off my CD's! Any suggestions out there are GREATLY appreciated!!! Thanks!

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