Transferred Itunes to New Computer but Now cant play any songs?

Can anybody help? I transfered my itunes library using the ipod as a hard drive to my new computer. Great! Everything is there, playlists still the same etc! Just when I thought "wow that was easy" I tried to play a song from new computer and it came up with a message about how the original file/format is not on that computer so it couldnt play it? Im not sure what to do now?
If you do what itunes suggest and download your entire library to CD etc this will take forever not to mention the amount of CDs! I think this is a stupid suggestion as well because you might as well go through all your actual CDS and just upload them again to your new computer. Surely there must be a cable or something I could use?
Sony Windows Vista

I followed the instructions on how to move your library to a new computer.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
I followed the instuctions which said to locate my itunes folder and the drag the folder from my docs over to my ipod which was shown in my computer/external devices. This took some time.
I then downloaded itunes onto my new computer and plugged the ipod into my new computer. I dragged the itunes library file from the ipod (which was a large file so definately the one that had all the songs it) It took about 20/30 minutes to transfer all the songs from the ipod onto the itunes library on my new computer. Everything looked fine and then I tried to click on a song and it told me "The song could not be be used because the orignal file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" Having said yes to locating the file it brings up my folder options... I select the itunes library once again because this is where it would be located but then nothing happens?

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