Problems Installing & Using iTunes on a new PC

I've been running iTunes on my old PC with all my music folders saved on an external hard drive. I've purchased a new PC that uses Vista. I've downloaded and installed the lastest version of iTunes, but I can't get iTunes to recognize the location of my music on the external hard drive (if I navigate to the folder through Windows Explorer and click on a song it will play through iTunes though) Also, when I connect my iPhone it synchronizes with iTunes and I can see a list of all the songs that are on the iPhone but none of them will play (the text appears greyed out rather than black) and iTunes won't allow me to copy any new files over to my iPhone.

When you say the music folders are on an external drive, is the iTunes database file also on the external drive, or is it on the C: drive of the old computer?
If the iTunes database file (iTunes Library.itl) is also on your external drive then launch iTunes while holding the SHIFT key. Hold until iTunes comes up; it will then prompt for the location of this file.
If the file is on your old C: drive you can either copy it to the C: drive on the new computer (Music\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl) or copy it to the external drive, then do the step above.
You can also specify the location of the music folders in iTunes Preferences on the Advanced tab. This will not copy your playlists, but will find the music.
Remember you must also Authorize the new computer.
Message was edited by: Lawrence Finch

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