Wow . . .  where did all music go?

i am trying to transfer my songs from my iPod onto a registered new laptop. i managed to transfer some of my old library by home network onto this new laptop, but not all of it transferred.
i tried following the instructions provided for tarnsferring music to a new computer but here's the gut-wrenchingly frustrating and convoluted trouble i am having: when i open my iPod from My Computer 1) there is no icon for iTunes. there is one for Music so i figured that was good enough. but, only a fraction of what is actually ON my iPod is in this folder. nonetheless, i transferred it anyway to My Music folder on my harddrive.
then i opened iTunes. i now have only songs i purchased from iTunes from the last month, and not - oh - 98% of my other music. where did it go? i can still see much of my music in My Music folder on my hard drive, but it doesn't show up in iTunes.
why is it so (multiple expletives) difficult to add music from my iPod into a pre-existing music folder on my laptop? if the computer is registered, why can't i see all my music in iTunes from any registered computer i own? what is the point of resgistering otherwise?
please help. thank you

ah, this is cute. now that i dragged and dropped my other music into the iTunes library interface, and it has begun copying and coverting files (which i had already done quite some time ago), i no longer see music that i have purchased in the last two weeks on this very computer.
all i want is to have the music on my iPod put onto my computer, added to the music i have purchased on this computer.
why is this so difficult?

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