Itunes 8 has trashed my music and music videos

I now get messages saying that itunes cannot find the original files for some of my music and anything but very recent music videos. surprise surprise it all worked in the previous version perfectly .....
can anyone help before i lose it completely ??

See if this will help : http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7748333&#7748333

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