Replacement 40 Gig Ipod arrives, only syncs music just recently purchased

After buying a replacement battery option for my old 40 gig ipod - ipod gone for several weeks during this time - tried to sync with replacement ipod and semi-failed. Apparently, while it was gone, and I downloaded new itunes software and started purchasing songs on itunes for the first time, a new library was set up (by me apparently). Got the new ipod, did all the stuff I needed to do on the instruction sheet to reset to my windows xp software and it only downloaded the new songs in the new library. Explored around my files and found the multi-library issue, cut and pasted old songs from old library to new library but ipod still not willing to recognize them and download them.... any thoughts? This is on my home Dell PC, not at my office MacBook Pro.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.5)

OK...now I'm really confused. Thank you for bearing with me.
Here's my situation:
Old Dell 80GB laptop with about 41GB of music in two folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\iPod Music
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music\iTunes
So I can't consolidate to this hard drive.
I also own a 100GB external hard drive with copies of these folders:
D:\My Music\iTunes
D:\iPod Music
I want to be able to use my portable hard drive to store my music and run on my new 30GB Fujitsu. I want to keep all of my play counts/stars etc.
I have tried to swap out the .itl and .xml files on the new computer. This displays all of my music/playlists etc, but all music has a circled explanation point.
If I just use the Fujitsu to file/add folder and add the folders...I lose all of my stars/playlists.
The articles you gave me allow me to use my iPod as a transfer device, but I have too much music for this, right?

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