We lost our Music Library when we changed from Vista to W7.

Recently had to change from Vista to W7 and when we downloaded a new iTunes, our Music Library wasn't there. What am I doing wrong?

Actually, it won't in my case.
On the external, I have them all saved in a folder called My Music (which contains some songs itself). There are hundreds of sub folders listed by Artist. Within those folders, are songs and also more folders with the Album title. Finally, within those album folders are the songs on that album.
I tried to load the entire My Music into iTunes, and it only loaded the songs in the My Music folder. I assume you have to go to every folder (down to the lowest level) and import them one by one.
I lose all of my playlists and ratings. They are still on my iPod - I wish there was a way to export those settings into a file, then repopulate iTunes - then use that file to re-organize my songs to the way they were.
I had weeks of work invested in iTunes and music organization.

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