Installing iTunes on VMWare caused iTunes on Mac to forget where songs are.

I have (had) a pristine iTunes library on my Mac. Two days ago downloaded and installed iTunes for Windows (64) on my VMWare partition. For some reason this caused about 1/2 of the songs in iTunes on the Mac to forget where they are (i.e. the exclamation point problem). The original files have not been moved, and if I do the locate option I can find them - but I don't want to do this on at a time.
How can I get my iTunes library back in order?

I also have this problem, but on my 64-bit Windows 7 desktop. My income level no longer permits me to purchase Apple computers. Anything that I've bought off of the iTunes store, most of it's ten to six years old, will not play any further than 2:34. I just knew when I agreed to this "protected music" business I'd find myself a decade down the line staring at an expensive but unplayable music collection.

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