Need some guidance rebuilding my library and not killing playlists

I lost a hard drive that had a lot of my music on it. I have the music I care most about on my Ipod and got it off (everything in my itunes library was on my ipod.. i used mediamonnkey to manage my whole collection and listen to music). But I need to get things back up so everything can be synced and I can use the files in other programs.
Main things I need to accomplish are:
1. *Within my ipod backup folder, delete the songs that I already have elsewhere so I don't have tons of doubles, and move the remainder back into my main music folder.*
This isn't too tough, just potentially extremeley tedious, as I have used instructions found on this forum to make a smart playlist in itunes of my 'alive' files, and my 'dead' files (the ones I need to save from this folder). If there was a way to do it automatically, that would be magical, but I am up for manually weeding everything out if it's the only way.
2. *Keep all my playlists working in Itunes*
This is the part that has me concerned. I need itunes to associate the new versions of the tracks with their counterparts that were lost so that my many playlists keep working (in university I had a radio show I worked pretty hard on and am attached to keeping the playlists functional). I'd prefer not double clicking and locating each of the currently missing files as there are 4485 of them.
So what I have right now:
1. itunes playlist of the unlocatable files with no locations
2. itunes playlist of the music that is still in the right place on my harddrives and doesn't need to be touched
3. itunes playlist with both together
4. a folder on my hard drive with all the songs from my ipod, which is the same songs as #3.
5. back-up of my itunes library with none of the songs recorded as missing which I made before running itunes after my HD crash. It includes playlist #3 but not #1 and #2, I think.
If anyone can advise on a practical approach to getting this sorted out, I will be so pleased.

Aloha:
Thanks for the reply.
It's on the desk top. Permission was not asked for!
I could not throw it away, either. it was always busy and could not be trashed????
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