Upgraded to iTunes 8, now it doesn't recognize previous music folders

I have stored my iTunes library on an external hard drive (F drive). When I updated to iTunes 8, the update automatically reset my preferences to the C drive.
I changed the iTunes music folder preference back to the F drive but it does not recognize any of the music stored there. It does allow me to store other music on the F drive, but will not recognize previously existing music.
How do I get my music back?

Well I reloaded the files and that seemed to help, I'd say I recovered about 75% of my music but that still leaves about 500+/- songs that iTunes 8 doesn't recognize. Now I need to go back and manually load each CD and hope that resolves the problem that iTunes 8 caused.
What a pathetic "upgrade."

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