Itunes and Vista, loosing songs

I recently upgraded my pc to Vista Buisness (through my uni)
I installed itunes and had kept the *my music* file from XP so it found all my music again automatically.
Althrough i have been seeing that many music files in itunes have been going missing, and not just a few files, entire albums have gone missing!
i get that little "!" next to them and when i search for them i cant find them anywhere on my computer,
can anyone help? i have already lost about 5 albums so far and it keeps growing
cheers
Dingo

What's missing are the specific details. I have no idea if this is on an external drive or where. Why do you keep on consolidating items? I can only guess you are doing something non-standard with using iTunes. I have had my iTunes library since before iTunes was iTunes (it was Soundjam) and I have lost almost no files.
If you keep media on an external drive you need to make sure the drive is on and fully mounted before starting iTunes.
Generally you can redownload past purchases. You need to delete the entry completely from iTunes first or iTunes will think it is still on a drive somewhere.

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