Huge percentage of files "missing"

yeah, we all are having out iTunes 11 crises, here's mine
a huge percentage of my files (I'm going to guess 40% or so) are now showing up as missing. Once I click on the file and select the resulting Locate option I can type the title of the song and, sure enough, it's located... in the folder for the album it's on, in the iTunes folder on my HD.... right where it's supposed to be and has been for years. Also, you have to do this for every single file. I've not found an option that says "would you like to locate the rest of your 10,000 missing files?' or the equiv...
What gives, Apple? None of this was broken before 11. There's a LOT of really cool stuff going on now, for sure. That said, it seems like a lot of things that weren't broken were "fixed" (where's the "display duplicates" function?) or are now broken.
I'm sure this will all be great in a month or two, but for now you guys really need to burn some midnight oil on the first set of patches.

I just found I have more music than before?!?!?!
I had 5700 songs now it's over 6300 songs.
I hate the plain look of it too. the color is gone and the cool metal look.

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