Recreating my iTunes on my laptop after moving library to mac

I had my iTunes library on my macair and decided to move it back to the iMac. I followed the instructions for moving the library back to my mac via an external drive. This seems to have worked OK.
I had wanted to still have iTunes on my laptop, and the software is still there. I deleted the iTunes folder as I had wanted to make space on the drive. I realise now that there was probably some files I shouldn't have deleted. It now gives me an option to create a new library, but then it wont let me and suggests to put it in a new folder, when I do that it still doesn't like it.
I wanted to just use home sharing from my mac to the laptop.
What can I do. Should I restore the folder and then just delete the iTunes media folder? Or is there some other way that would be better?
Message was edited by: rayver

Move it all back to the C: drive to exactly where it was before, and follow these directions to fix it.
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