Can't find most iTunes songs?

I am running iTunes 10.1.2 on a Mac, and most of my files are invalid.
When I click on a song, a window pops up that says "the song X could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" This happens for songs I have downloaded from the iTunes store as well as albums I have downloaded off CD. I looked in Finder- Music - iTunes - iTunes Music and there are about 8 albums in there that are remaining, most of them recent downloads, one CD recently imported.
I don't have Time Machine working on this computer. My 4 year old son likes to play in iTunes and my wife decided that we have too many downloads, so she emptied the download folder in the Finder and then emptied the trash.
Please help, I don;t know where to go from here, the Apple support only got me as far as finding the iTunes Music folder.
Thanks!

Hmmm,
I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
Use it to search your whole drive for case insensitive & show invisibles for something like...
.mp3
(dot em pee three) or whatever type they were.
Does that find any missing songs?
Any chance the missing ones were in the Downloads folder?

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