Migrated Library still linked to files on old drive.

When I got my new Mac Pro in Feb, I pulled my old drive out of my G4 and installed it in the Mac Pro. I then used the Migration Assistant to copy my user files over. Everything was looking fine until I decided I didn't need the files on the old G4 drive anymore. I deleted my user data and now iTunes claims 95% of my music files are offline (exclamation point in front of the name). I guess it was still pointing most of the songs to the old files on the old drive. I do have and have always had the preferences set to copy files to the iTunes folder during import.
The files are on the new drive in the right place. If I try to play a song, it says the file can't be found and it lets me reconnect to it. And then all is well - for that one song. Reconnected about 20 so far and they all work so I'm pretty sure all the music is there.
OK, finally here's the question: Is there a faster way to reconnect all the remaining song files to the iTunes library without re-importing and losing all the play and ratings history. Doing it one at a time will take me until its time to upgrade to a new computer - which was about 5 years for the last upgrade. I think I still have around 1200 files to reconnect although the alert I get when connecting my iPod only shows 100 in the list of missing.
By the way, the whole library is/was synced to my iPod if that will help.

Well, I thought I had a solution. My iPod has all the music and playlists (but no movies) so I bought a license to Podworks. The first time I tried to import my music and playlists from the iPod, it errored out on each file with the same error described by some obscure error number I don't remember.
I then tried deleting all the bad files from iTunes (the ones with the exclamation points) and then iPodworks imported everything. The trouble is my library folder nearly doubled in size. Yes, even though I deleted the files in iTunes, since they didn't connect to the music files on the disk, they remained. Now I have a second copy of all those files imported from the iPod. A " 1" was added to the imported file names.
On to plan B, whatever that is.

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I was finally able to fix this by using a couple of preference management utilities. Either I missed a key preference file for each app, or there are some hidden preference files, but when I used the prefence management utitilities (such as Preferntial Treatment, PrefEdit, Defaulter, or PlistEdit Pro) I was able to look at the prefs for Firefox and Photoshop CS2 and see where the hostname for the my old G4 was listed. (in the case of Photoshop CS2 it was actually in the list of recently opened files!! I should have noticed that from within Photoshop)
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