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Greetings,

  I just pulled my iTunes library from an external hard drive to the internal drive on my new iMac (with Leopard, natch).  A significant percentage (15-20%) of the song files show the standard MP3 song icon when viewed in the finder.  The rest show the album art.  The files with the standard icon (for purposes of this post, let's call them "ugly files") are randomly distributed, as far as I can tell.  Most albums have 2-3 such ugly files.

  Not something I would have even noticed, except for the associated iTunes weirdness.  All of the "ugly files" can't be located by iTunes.  In other words, their metadata shows up in the Music Library.  But, when I go to play one of them (or get info on one of them), iTunes responds with:
  The song "yadda, yadda" could not be used because the original file could not be found.  Would you like to locate it?

  I can easily find the song files, as they are in the same directory as the rest of the album.  But doing so for 4000 songs will drive me batty.

  Anyone seen something like this?  Know how to fix it?  Know of an automated way to "locate" the lost files?

Thanks,
yendi