What is the correct way to restore the catalog after a disk failure?

I am running the latest Itunes on Vista. The disk failed on my old computer and I have a backup of the catalog file. The music files are on external storage (NAS). I've been searching for instructions on how to restore Itunes.
The catalog is about 1 week out of sync with the music files because I added some music in between backups of the catalog file and the disk failure.
In a perfect world, I'd like to restore the catalog with playlists and the album art.
Are there instructions to accomplish this or do I need to rebuild the catalog from the music files and recode my playlists?

Firstly I don’t have a NAS drive so what I say applies to and external HD, but it should be similar.
When you say catalogue file, I guess you mean the iTunes database files – iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml. The xml file is just used to allow other programs access to the library but can be useful because you can rebuild the itl file from it.
If you want your art work, you need a folder in the iTunes folder called Album Artwork.
So ideally you would like to be able to recover your old iTunes folder from backup.
If I understand you correctly, you had all your music on a NAS drive and the library files on your internal drive. Were all the music files/folders located the iTunes Music folder on the NAS drive? I will assume you have, it is much harder to get things working if they were not.
I guess you now have your NAS drive mapped into your new computer so you can see it as a drive letter.
So I hope this will work for you…
With iTunes closed, drag the iTunes folder from it’s current location to your desktop. I think the iTunes folder is in Music in Vista.
Now copy your backup iTunes folder into Music.
Now start iTunes and got to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>General and set the location of your iTunes Music folder to your folder on the NAS drive.
If you can see your music as it was when you did the backup, you can use Add Folder to Library to add the folder containing your music. Don’t worry, this shouldn’t create duplicates but it will add any tracks not currently in your library.
If you don’t have the iTunes folder, the procedure is similar except that instead of dragging the whole iTunes folder out to the desk top, just drag iTunes Library.itl and replace it with the backup. You won’t get your artwork if you just do this.

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Ok..i don't think this is convered in the FAQs.
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