Items in music library do not appear in itunes

After the recent updates, several of my iTunes tracks were missing--actually they had been redistributed to "podcasts" and "audiobooks," and a few of the photos were misplaced. A bit of a mess.
Spotlight help relocate most of the files, and I put most everything back in place, but now several of the files that I have returned to the proper location in the music library are not recognized by itunes.
I can play them from the finder, but not in itunes.
Any thoughts about what the problem might be???--permissions have been repaired and the computer has been rebooted.
Thanks
intel imac   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I am having the same problem:
Here is my situation:
I am having a problem with the latest release of Itunes and my Ipod. I am trying to remove Audiobooks and Podcasts. In the Library while in Itunes I can see a "music" folder which shows all my music files; this use to show all files. Now it just shows music files. I deleted all the podcasts out of my podcast playlist and it did not remove them from my Ipod. I can not figure out how to see everything in one library, rather than this separated system we now see.
Please advise.
Thanks,
Carl

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