All songs on networked folder "could not be found", though not moved

Last night my computer froze while iTunes was in the process of running the script "Put This In That".
This morning I rebooted my computer by having to hold down the power button and then restarting.
Ever since all this iTunes cannot find ANY of my 80GBs of music.
Here is my situation:
- MacBook Pro; iTunes database/xml file resides in it's default location in my music folder.
- Network Attached Storage device (a DNS-323) holds over 80 GB music in a folder named "iTunes 081102", all of which was being managed by iTunes just fine up til this morning. The "iTunes Music folder location" is set to point to "Volume_1:iTunes 081102:", which is the location of the above folder on the Network Attached Storage. This is the way it was set yesterday, and the way it is still set today.
When I try to play any song I get the standard message "The song... could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
I actually tried to this once, hoping like some other software I use that it would use this as a guide to find everything else, but no such luck.
If I go to "Get Info" for a song and go the Summary tab, under "Where:" all it says is "Not available".
The thing is NOTHING HAS MOVED. Everything is in the EXACT SAME LOCATION as it's always been.
So how do I tell iTunes to "go fetch"?
Is this an issue because I'm using iTunes on a laptop, and for half of my day the files aren't available?
I don't want to reimport, because then I will loose all my ratings and meta-data.

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"Error -50," "-5000," "8003," "8008," or "-42023"
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See iTunes 9: "One Moment Please" or "Error (-50)" message when accessing iTunes Store
If you encounter this issue while while downloading something from the iTunes Store:
Delete your iTunes Downloads folder, located in:
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