How to Clean up my Library

Hi all. I'm kind of an itunes dummy, so any help appreciated.
I have about 3700 songs, all living in the itunes library folder, in hundreds of different subfolders. The other day I upgraded my itunes software, and watched in shock as little "!" started appearing next to song after song. After all was done, itunes had lost its link to about half of my songs, with seemingly no rhyme or reason.
I can use the "Bring out your dead" script successfully, one song at a time, but at this point I'm thinking this will just be a good excuse to delete all the songs I don't ever listen to.
So, is there any way to make a playlist of all the songs I want to keep (I'll manually help itunes find them), then delete everything else: files and all? I do not have an ipod I can sync to.
Thanks all!

Hi all. I'm kind of an itunes dummy, so any help appreciated.
I have about 3700 songs, all living in the itunes library folder, in hundreds of different subfolders. The other day I upgraded my itunes software, and watched in shock as little "!" started appearing next to song after song. After all was done, itunes had lost its link to about half of my songs, with seemingly no rhyme or reason.
I can use the "Bring out your dead" script successfully, one song at a time, but at this point I'm thinking this will just be a good excuse to delete all the songs I don't ever listen to.
So, is there any way to make a playlist of all the songs I want to keep (I'll manually help itunes find them), then delete everything else: files and all? I do not have an ipod I can sync to.
Thanks all!

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