My music information- GONE please help!

I am trying to move itunes 10 from old pc to new pc. All my music is on an external HD. I had my music library of over 500 cd's all organized by artist in folders on the external hd. Now, the new itunes install on the new pc has re-organized my external hd and all the folders are gone! Please help me get them back. How can itunes change my own external HD?? It has put all the songs together under a folder called 'unknown atrist'. The title of the song is still there but all my folders are gone!

Maybe turingtest2 (a regular AD poster) can help with his script, TagFromFilename.
Just try one or two files to make sure it works how you want, before you run it on the whole shebang. I think it will help, but I'm not sure.
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/scripts.asp
Good luck. You're going to need it!

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