Missing playlists after moving to new computer

Greetings.
I am soliciting some help.
I have acquired a new computer (Vista, Lenovo desktop) and want to use iTunes on it. So, I downloaded and installed iTunes on it.
I keep all my iTunes things on an external drive (G drive) and so I connected it to the new computer and dragged/dropped the entire iTunes folder over. Then I set it to be the "iTunes Music folder location."
I seem to have lost the playlists (and I have lots of them - 120 GB of music/audio).
Is there a simple way to recover them. I really don't want to start over on playlists...
Bill
[email protected]

Bill, I am hoping you can help me out. I too have a new computer with the windows vista platform. i have my itunes music folder, itunes itl and xml on my external hard drive. i went ahead and started itunes on the new computer while holding down shift button to choose the library. when i did though it said it was locked, on a locked disc ,or dont have write permission to open this file. do you know a way of how to correct this, or how to get my music on the new computer with all playlists intact? (i noticed on some posts there was reference to ensuring external drive on old and new computer was same letter, that is also not the case with mine. was G on the old one, now this one has it as an F. any help you can provide i'd greatly appreciate

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