Changing path of multiple files in iTunes.

I have a fun one for you. Every time I have an update for iTunes, it decides that it randomly no longer wants to recognize certain songs on certain playlists on my iPhone. The latest episode decided that of the 25k songs in my library it wanted to do it for about 2k of them. The best part is that they are all songs on playlists. So there are random songs from thousands of albums that have this as their path: file://localhost/C:/Users/Brian/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/etc.....
I have all of my music on an external drive, and changing the path for all of my music to the default and then reassigning it to the external drive does not work.
What I would like to do is select all of the songs that have this path and change them all at the same time so that I don't have to spend 2 days doing it one song at a time. Any insight?
Thank you!
Actually here's an update - upon exploring the folder that each of the files should be in, I have come to find that iTunes has magically deleted all of the files from my computer and from my hard drive. They are still on my iPhone.....wow, incredibly annoying.

Take a look at this page from microsoft, it has one of three Methods to solve your problem (note they are talking bout installing a different product, but the error messages are the same):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894510

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