Help!!!!! can't open songs!!!!

...theres several songs on in my i-tunes library with an exclamation next to it and when i click on it a message pops up saying "The song could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" does anybody have any ideas or know what this is? I didn't delete any of them, so I don't know why "the original file could not be found" Any ideas??????
pc Windows XP N/A
pc Windows XP N/A

This has happened to me before.. This error occurs because you have probably moved the actual song file.
All you need to do is double click the song that has the exclamation point next to it, click yes when the box comes up and then go through your files and locate the song file.
Hopefully once you do this it won't ask you to locate it again unless you more the file.
To avoid this, you can set your options so that you can dubplicate the songs you have in your library, but that can take up a lot of space.
Hope this answers your question!!

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