Missing iTunes Library on Backup

My son has a Tiger laptop and he needed to get the hard drive replaced. He had a large iTunes library, which he dragged and dropped onto a CD. He then checked the CD and said that all of his music files were there.
After getting the new hard drive and resetting up his user account, he logged in and opened the CD with the iTunes backup. When he opened the backup library in iTunes it was empty. Does anyone know why he can't see the backed up files?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
MultiMacs

If you look at the contents of the CD in the Finder, can you see the music files?
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