Problems with old library on new notebook

i just got a new notebook and installed itunes and wanted to import my library that i copied to an external drive from my old notebook (the iTunes Music Library.xml and the iTunes Library iTunes Music Database File). there - same as on the new notebook, too - my whole itunes music libraray was one single music folder with several subfolders. the difference, which now causes major problems are the drive letters of the partition that folder was on on the old notebook and the one on the new one. formerly it was e:, now it's f:. therefore the entries in the library files refer to files which actually are on my notebook, but not on the e: partition anymore, but on the f: partition!
so i added the whole music folder to the library again, and i had my music back in itunes, BUT all the playlists are still empty. is there a way to "update" the library files with the new location of the music files? since i have pretty many playlists with a whole bunch of tracks (ipod classic 160gb with some 55% used) it would be a quite annoying and time consuming work to add all the tracks manually.. and also the automatically generated playlists like recently added and played and mostly played are very important to me - with the respective dates added and played and play counts etc.
so, is there any way to do that, or do i have to add all the tracks to the playlists manually?
thanks
Message was edited by: necrophyte

hey, just wanted to say that i finally managed to do everything as imagined at the beginning. i simply uninstalled and reinstalled itunes and deleted all the entries/files (local settings & app data in winxp) that dont get removed by just uninstalling itunes, then copied my old .xml and .itl files over the newly created default equivalents, then imported them, and all my playlists and files appeared correctly (no double playlists etc. as before), but just with the exclamation mark, since they're referring to the "old" partition. then just changing the itunes music folder from default to my notebook's partition and folder where all the files are stored fixed everything - since i didnt modify anything since making the backup from the old notebook, everything's 1:1 the same, even when i attached my ipod id didnt ask me anything like different library or so, it just tried to sync it, but since no change since last sync on old notebook, nothing to add/remove, so now i finally got to the same state as before with the old notebook.
thanks for helping me!
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