Moved to new PC from WinXP to Win7, and iTunes does not see library

My old laptop was running Windows XP. My new laptop is running Windows 7. I installed iTunes and copied my the contents of my "iTunes Music" directory into the "iTunes Media" directory (from "Documents and Settings/<user name>/My Documents/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/ into "Users/<user name>/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Media).
My iTunes Media directory on my old laptop was set to the iTunes Music directory, and my iTunes Media directory on my new laptop is set to the iTunes Media directory. However, iTunes does not see my music on my new laptop.

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