Why am I missing songs after reorganizing files?

This morning did everything I usually do but iTunes couldn't locate any song files. So I rebooted and still had the problem.
Went to Edit/Preferences and saw that folder location was pointing to the default folder on C:, but my music is on an external drive (F:).
So I changed the location to the correct location and it refreshed the library. Then it asked if I wanted iTunes to reorganize the files. I said yes.
Once complete, I had a whole bunch of exclamation marks in the left column! I've confirmed that the song files are actually in the correct place. And it's very random which ones are lost - 2 or 3 songs from albums - the rest of the songs ARE there. Very strange.
I have over 20k songs, so going through and manually "reattaching" each file is not even an option.
Any ideas out there???
Thanks!
Mike

From iTunes 9.2 onwards if you attempt to Get Info. on a lost file and then cancel when asked to try to locate it, the summary tab should show you where iTunes "thinks" the file should be. If possible move missing files back to where they ought to be then close & reopen iTunes to reconnect them.
That's fine for an obvious error, say the iTunes Media folder has been relocated, but since you seem to have a random selection of located and unlocated tracks you could try my script SwitchLinks.vbs.
Select one or two tracks to begin with, double-click on the script to run it and use the No option so you can check that is identifying the right files to reattach to. If that goes OK then create these lost and found playlists and run the script on your missing tracks in larger groups.
Lost & Found
Create a playlist called Found, select everything in Music and drag it into the Found playlist. Create a smart playlist called Lost matching All the rules Playlist is Music and Playlist is not Found. Your lost tracks will be in this playlist.
Alternatively, if you are not bothered about play counts, ratings, date added etc. then you could try iTunes Folder Watch which can scan your library for missing files to be removed and scan your media folders for new files to be added.
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