Unique Issue... All Media on Newly Striped Drive, EZ way to reconnect??

I had my XSERVE RAID striped the wrong way, by so called professionals. So I went ahead and got the restriped as RAID 50's. Now that all the content is on one drive instead of 2, I was wondering if there is a quick and painless way of reconnecting all my media files? when I bring up my most recent file there are 8000 missing elements, that's just a pain to deal with. What's the easiest solution to this process, or am I going to have to attempt reconnecting each grouping of files?
Thanks in advance.

Ok so for this job, we were working with all different files from 3D, After Effects to Photoshop and Illustrator files. Should we throw all of those files into the same area as the capture scratch area, or how would one organize that same situation.
On a side note, we had everything pretty organized, we put Maya in a Maya folder, After Effects in an AE folder, and then all the captured Media was on the Scratch drive, but that's where the problem began. Because I had my raid seperated into Two drives a Raid 5 on one side and a Raid 0 on the other, I didn't want to throw important information on the Raid 0 so I put the Captured media onto that drive, because I could recapture the media. Well now that I have reformatted my drives to a Raid 50 it doesn't recognize the hierarchy of the media.
So I guess the simple question is: Now that I have my original two drives, one named RAID the other named SCRATCH in one Drive at this point named XRAID is there a simple way to have FCP 5.04 quickly catch that everything has moved into this one big new folder XRAID and with every project, see this and find all the material it needs to, since they were serperated into different folders as a means of protecting valuable information? Thanks Again

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