Transferring windows backup to new macbook

Hi all,
Well, I bought my first ever mac today - finally come over from the dark side aka a windows laptop! My old laptop died on Monday and I decided enough was enough. I ran a regualr windows backup on my external hardrive so after starting up my mac wanted to transfer my docs, music, photos etc etc.
Turned on my harddrive and viewed the files available only to find there are about 200 zip folders and none of the files are in any order - its not clear which are music/photos etc etc. There are also lots of program files but I'm guessing i dont want to import those onto my MAC.
Please can someone help me understand how to import/transfer my windows backup to my mac and bring across all my photos and music (data) etc, without having to manually drag across 30000 files or so. None of the zip folders relate to the folders I had on my laptop so its basically a big mess - HELP!

Hmm, a brief Google search hasn't brought any joy. The Automator utility in OS X might be able to help with unzipping the data and placing it in a folder for you to work with, and might be able to do more. I don't know a whole lot about Automator, so I'm going to ask the hosts to move this post to the Automator forum and see if anyone there can help.
~Lyssa

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