Garageband won't open a song - because it can't find an audio file

Hi, I was hoping someone might be able to help me out.
I was working on a song, saved and closed it. Just a couple of hours later, I wanted to open the song and went through the process as normal. At first GB looked like it was loading up fine, then it got to a point and a message pops us saying something like "Unable to find Chorus1#32.aiff" with the options to Skip or Search.
If I Skip, then GB just crashes and I get the apple message saying the program closed unexpectedly etc.
If I Search, then it appears to search and doesn't find it and either ends up just hanging and becoming unresponsive (more times than not) and ocassionally it goes back to SKIP at which point it will crash if I try to skip.
As such, I am completely unable to open this song. I have checked the package contents and the file that it says is missing is not there.
I have searched the hard drive and have been unable to find the file anywhere. I found some other deleted .aif files in the trash, so I tried renaming one of those to the file GB says was missing and putting it in the song's package contents, this doesn't work. Just can't open the song at all.
Can anyone help with this please, or is it just lost forever?
Thanks in advance!

Does the song play in iTunes?
If yo have know goo copy of the song I would delete it from the iTunes media folder and then reimport the known good file.

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