New install not accessing existing library on D: drive.

My iTunes library is much larger than my entire SSD I use as a boot volume, so of course I keep it on a second internal hard drive labeled D:.
I just had my system corrupted and all backcup images not read by restore discs, so I had to wipe my C: SSD and re-install my Windows 7, 64-bit OEM from scratch. Now, with a new install of iTunes, I can't seem to get it to recognize my existing library on my D: drive. I've pointed it there in preferences both to the iTunes folder and the iTunes Library folder inside it on the drive. I can open any individual item with iTunes separately and add that to my library separately, but no matter what, this thing just seems to ignore my existing content completely. Nothing shows in my library within the program but the few nonsense songs that came with some software somewhere.
I at first thought it was finding my TV shows, but it turns out that was only on the cloud. I don't want to depend on some cloud server for my content I've bought and paid for when I have it stored in redundant hard drives of my own. I need this to access my content on the drive I've selected for it, including my existing content already there.

OK, I got the menu bar open and found an article in "help" that said to drag the existing library folder into the iTunes window and that got my stuff into the software, but how can I be sure that new purchases go into the proper folder on my D: drive rather than into some C; drive location. I have a terrabyte D: drive that is already red in Windows Explorer and still has more space left than this SSD I'm using as a C: drive had blank.

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