New Computer, Old Music and iTunes 6.0, etc... Help!

This is a multi-part problem.
1. The laptop that my music was stored on died a terrible death. I bought a new laptop, which is authorized for iTunes. I pulled the hard drive from my old computer and transfered all of my music to the new laptop. Now everything shows up with the at the beginning of the song. I get an error message saying that the "original cannot be found" even though the music was transferred correctly (and is showing up in iTunes).
2. In installing iTunes to the new laptop, I ended up with v. 6.0. I got that wonderful "updatiing iPod" message. After being updated, iTunes reinstalled all of the music on my iPod, but also changed everything around. While my iPod shows up in my iTunes folder, the songs on mny iPod don't show up in iTunes.
3. In addition to all of this, I can no longer transfer music to my iPod.
Any suggestions?
Lynn

Lynn,
1. I recently bought a new computer and even though I kept track of my data files, I did end up with a few !'s. Here's how to correct.
MacMuse, "Removing "!" / dead links in iTunes library", 11:37pm Oct 8, 2004 CDT
2. I take it that you're using auto-syn. It may be that you didn't transfer you data files (xml and itl) which is why everything was changed around. Does it resemble any type of order? Here's a little more reading:
MacMuse, "Move iTunes music/Library to new drive", 12:34pm Oct 12, 2004 CDT

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