Exclaimation Marks

Dear all,
I recently bought an iPod 160GB Classic. Previously I had used an Archos 605 for all my mp3 needs, syncing it with Windows Media Player.
So, I opened Itunes and clicked File/Open Folder and selected my 'My Music' folder with all my music in. After a few hours, all my music had been opened into Itunes and everything was fine. I synced my new iPod and everything worked.
However, today I attempted to sync my iTunes but was shown an error window stating something like 'iTunes cannot find the location of this music...want to locate it now?'. So, a lot of the songs in iTunes had this exclaimation mark beside them, highlighting a problem. I clicked 'Locate' and found one of the song's location, which enabled me to play that song again and cleared it of exclaimation marks.
I thought the problem was that my iTunes was having to find music stored in 'My Music' rather than 'iTunes Library'; so I selected all the files in 'My Music' and dragged them into my 'iTunes Library' folder.
Yet, to my surprise, this did not fix the problem and instead, when I opened up iTunes, it was blank.
All my music is located in the 'iTunes Library' folder still, but I cannot File/Open From Folder and open it into iTunes because it tells me that I don't have enough space on my C: (because I'm running low).
Is there anyway I can get my music back onto my iTunes? If so, where do I need to save my music in the future, etc?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Glenn.

+it tells me that I don't have enough space on my C:+
First make sure you have the copy files setting turned off:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61658
Sounds like your .itl file got damaged. Try creating a new library by holding down the shift key while starting itunes:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.6/en/15502.html

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