How can I restore lost paths?

After getting a new external hard drive and copying over my iTunes folder, iTunes has lost the paths to hundreds of files stored in the proper places in the iTunes folder. It has always been set to "keep iTunes folder organized", and after setting the folder to the new location I consolidated the library. Still hundreds of songs aren't found. I can locate manually each file, as they remain where they should be in the artist and album folders, but there are A LOT of them. is there not way for iTunes to search automatically and restore the paths?
thanks!

I was thinking that this might help: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
but I'm worried that I will lose all my playlists if I do this, and I'd rather not back up and restore each playlist individually since I have many.

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