Missing songs when I try to transfer to new computer

Hi,
I am trying to help my father move his iTunes music library from his old windows machine to his new iMac. I have tried the following:
1.    Tried to find my iTunes music library. And copied that to a hard drive and moved it to the mac and did an import to the mac. I found very few songs (1800) in the mac.
2.     Tried to select all the 3600 songs from my iTunes library, copy them into an external drive, but only these 1800 songs moved.
3.     I went through a couple discussion forums and tried the following based on their advice.:
iTunes > File > Library > consolidate library
I tried steps 1 & 2 again. I still have the same problem. I Would really appreciate it if someone can help me resolve this quickly as I have finally convinced him to move to the mac and now that he has, he is getting really frustrated that his songs are "lost". :-)
Thanks

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