ITunes can't find file - updating several file locations at once

I've got several audiobooks that are in a different location than my music library. I recently reinstalled my laptop and restored the older iTunes folder (so I don't have to repopulate my 120gb worth of mp3 files in iTunes).
It worked well enough. iTunes sees all my albums and by pointing the reinstalled iTunes to my music library path, it can find all my music. I have to manually point iTunes to every mp3 (audiobook for example) to anything that isn't in the default library location though.
Is there any way I can update an entire album location without changing the library path?

nope - that's not it either! all my xml text things have identical paths to the real location of the files. nice idea, though!
i have fixed my problem, though. probably not permanently or in a very convenient way, but at present itunes is working for me again. here is how i did it...
all my files were also on my ipod, so i used a downloadble software package (music rescue, which is fantastic!) to copy all of the mp3 files from my ipod to my internal hard drive. i then dragged these and dropped them all into my itunes library. this meant that after a lot of copying i had all tracks twice, and every other track had the '!' symbol next to it.
i therefore had my library twice over, once working and once not working. i highlighted all the tracks with exclamation marks and deleted them, leaving the new version of my old library. i lost my playlists but i didn't really have any anyway, and no smart lists or anything like that. i probably also lost playcounts and the like but i don't really care about that either because i don't use itunes in that involved a way...
i am fully expecting itunes to work fine for a while, then do the same thing again, so i am leaving this as a unanswered question in the hope that someone has a suggestion that will offer a more permanent solution.
thanks to everyone for their help...
macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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