Please help with itunes library

Recently my PC died on me. I have all of my itunes library on an external drive and fortuntately made a copy of the itunes folder under C;\ users\ music, etc. In the past after a major hardware upgrade (ie hard drive) I just replace the  C;\ users\ music, etc. with the copy of the iTunes folder and would change the  iTunes media folder location to the external drive (G:\iTunes Media\iTunes Media folder)  which worked in the past. I thought it had worked but after going through my playlists none of the songs worked! What have I done wrong? I have over 77,000 songs that I have made playlists and genius playlists. The system I had was windows 7 and now using my sons unused pc with Vista.
Please assist me if you can.
Thanks

This is very confussing. As I said, I thought it had worked when I tested just the top three songs in my music library. Wanted to clarify that why I went to the playlists it does not play as well as beyond the few three songs I tested. The original Drive letter was T;\ but when I connected it to my sons pc it was G:\ for some reason. I changed it to T:\ and when I changed the media location to reflect the change it asked me ""Would you like iTunes to move and rename the files in your new iTunes Music folder to match the "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" . I always had keep my itunes organized but the fact that it asked again I wasnt sure what to answer (Yes or No). in anycase, my music playlists did work but found a few that do not or the songs are missing under the playlists. Whats going on here?

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