Moving music back after reinstall

My daughter's imac G3 was a mess. She needed copies of some of the files, but not much of it so I hooked up an external drive and copied her existing hard drive onto it. I didn't use CCC or anything like it because I was intending on starting from scratch anyway. Just needed her music and Appleworks docs.
I erased her hard drive and installed her new Tiger software onto it. Everything went well and it is running good, but now I am ready to bring her music back over to it from the external drive. Can someone tell me how best to do this or point me to another thread/article that explains the right method?
Thanks
sj

Your last guess was closer to reality. At first I though I had lost all the music. Since her house is always a bit of a commotion, I took the external home to investigate further and found about 1300+ songs in an "unknown artist" folder.
They were mostly her boyfriend's (a musician) music and very dear to him. None of them were itunes bought, as they were all back-ups every CD they ever bought...good thing since they were robbed and all the cds were stolen.
Sooo... I used the computer we have at our house to drag all these "unknown" files to its itunes and they all copied over fine. I then sought out the names for all the tracks using itunes and most all of them were identified and sorted by itunes. There were many that still remain "unknown" and I have to assume these files may be the damaged ones that prevented me from bringing over all the itunes stuff the FIRST time I cleaned up her hard drive a few weeks ago. (didn't tell you about that!) There were over 7 gB of music, which doesn't sound like a lot, but considering all the photo's she had too...her hard drive was crammed full. Dumb kids.
I dragged the music folder from user>me>music>itunes to the external. I plan on going over to her house and drag them into her itunes just like I did at my house. will this work? I will dump all the "unknowns" that were left in the library before copying it over.
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Is there a better way?
Then I will tell her to get an external drive to keep her photos on. That will be another project for another time. I hope she can use iphoto with an external drive for storage.

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