Exclaimation point icon appearing next to a song on iTunes...

I have iTunes on Windows, and a couple of days ago I put a bunch of songs from CDs onto my iTunes. Just now, a few days later, the exclaimation point icon is popping up next to songs and the songs won't play. This is only happening with the songs I got from the CDs. It keeps showing up on more in more songs periodically. Please help...I miss these songs!!!

It means that the songs have either ben deleted from the computer or moved outside of the iTunes music folder. Either way, iTunes cannot locate them.
Have a look for them.
On the Start menu, click Search.
Click All Files and folders.
In the "All or part of the file name" field, type a songs name and then click Search.
If you see the files you are looking for in the Search Results window, you can add them back into your iTunes library.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93140
Don't forget to check the recycle bin.

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