RECONNECTING MEDIA... ONE AT A TIME ?????

I migrated my I-tunes list from my dual 1.25 G4 to my new MacPro but its didn't automatically connect... I have several hundred songs in my library and have to find and connect a song individually by searching its title.
Is that the only way to do it- one at a time?
Is there anyway to have the whole list re-connect to its appropriate file automatically?
Thanks

Basically the EDL will decide on the relevant cuts so once that is imported into final cut it's simply the case of connecting up the relevant media files, however the EDL offline timeline has the same naming throughout so each cut in the timeline has the same name but I am able to reconnect all the media gradually by selecting them one by one... Will the EDL have to have the exact name as the media files in order to reconnect all files at once?
Thanks

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