Help, iTunes keep "losing" my files

I have Windows Media Player (WMP) plays my songs and have iTunes to load songs to my iPod mini. Whenever I played some songs on WMP and then closes WMP, it somehow causes iTunes to not find those same songs, even though the location of these songs remain the SAME. Why is this happening?

I don't get what you're asking.
Are these new songs that iTunes isn't finding? Are they protected WMA files?

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