Imovie Can't Find Music

Hey Everyone,
Been working on a rather long video with about 5 music files added as background. It worked fine all day, I closed it to make dinner, come back after dinner and imovie "*The song "___" could not be used because the original file could not be located.*"
Let me reitterate - NOTHING changed from before dinner to after dinner other than 1) I exported a copy of what I had finished, 2) the computer has been restarted.
I've restarted Imovie, restarted the computer, powered completely down, NOTHING allows me to use any music file to be used as part of the project in imovie.
Now I can't play the music that was apart of the project, nor can I put new ones in. Itunes can play all these files, imovie can't.
Anyone have any suggestions?!

when i hold finder down, there is only a "go to folder" with the words "go" in there isnt a sub box for library and when i typed library for the "go to folder" it said couldnt be found.
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