Reinstallation of music after reformatting the HD and up-grading to Tiger

I have 142 GB of music on an external HD with which iTunes 6 has worked fine for ages. Prior to upgrading to Tiger I made a copy of all the iTunes folders (including the library files) onto the same external HD.
During the Tiger upgrade I was forced to reformat the HD and so now I'm trying to get iTunes 6 (same version) to recognise the music files. I've copied the backed-up versions of "iTunes Music Library.xml" and "iTunes Library" back to User/Music/iTunes and under Preferences/Advanced, have re-directed the iTunes Music Location to the External HD/iTunes/iTunes Music that I had previously been using without any problem.
On running iTunes, whilst all my Playlists and Smart Playlists are showing (the library files seem OK), the tracks all have the dreaded "!" next to each one.
As I can't copy the music files back from the external HD to the internal HD - too large - I'm really stuck as to how move forward.
Could anyone please assist...
Many thanks,
Andrew.

You might try to do the following:
Copy your "iTunes Music Library.xml" to your Desktop and rename it to thismayhelp.xml
Open this file with a editor and replace all occurencies of the old path (file://localhost/Users/YourUserName/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/) to your tracks with the new one.
Save that copy
Move "iTunes Library" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" to your Desktop.
Launch iTunes - as the 2 mentioned files are missing in your "iTunes" folder, iTunes will create fresh ones.
There will no tracks show up in iTunes - Now from iTunes Menu File select "Import" and choose the edited copy of "iTunes Music Library.xml"

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