My music Library on my other computer

I just copied my music library (legally) to my other computer. Both are with Windows. I now have them in my music folder and it has been divided into maybe 30 different folders with maybe 30 songs in each folder. They are labeled F00, F01, F02, etc. The songs inside each have new names - what seems to be random letters FTPS, QEOV, etc. I thought I read in the directions to be sure to click "copy files to itunes music folder when adding to library". I did that.
What I've done is gone to each of these strangely labeled songs, right clicked, and clicked on "open with", and then "itunes". This seems to move the strangely labeled song out of this music folder and correctly labels it in the actual itunes library list (and also plays the song). It seems like this is what I want, but I'd rather not have to do this with 1000+ individual songs. Is there any way to do this for an entire folder at once?
Dell Optiplex GX270   Windows XP  

OK, thank you. I'd like to do it all over like you said. The unclear part to me is this paragraph:
Now you're going to have to move the info to the new computer. If you have an external hard drive, drag the iTunes folder, located within My Documents\My Music onto it. If you have a network set up, copy the iTunes folder to a location that can be accessed by the new computer.
Do I need to do anything differently when I use my iPod as the hard drive? The way I did it before was by opening itunes on the new computer, opening preferences (so it wouldn't try to sync), and then copying from the iPod. Is that the way to use the iPod as a hard drive?
Sorry - i'm not totally clear on this.
Optiplex GX270   Windows XP  

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