Missing Music and Music Videos...

I just had to replace my system HD last night. My entire itunes library is on an external HD. Once I got the new HD up and running and restored everything via my Time Machine back up, I noticed some of my purchased songs were gone and 3 recent Music Video purchases were also gone. I did a search for them all on my external drive and they were listed right there in my iTunes Music folder on that drive! Why are they not showing up when I open iTunes then? I had to manually drag the songs back over but I am having an issue getting the 3 music videos to show up. If I hook my iPod up will it delete them from my iPod?

...here I thought you had an answer to my post and you just asked a whole other question. Well to answer yours where is your music at currently? If you have your music backed up on CD's (should be like a XML file or something like that just open iTunes and click FILE then ADD TO LIBRARY or you can manually drag all your music over which would take forever.

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Today I woke op and I had no music and no videos anymore ?!?!?!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
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