ITunes can't find the original songs

Posting this for a friend with newish Macbook. He has a 10 Gb library of songs in his iTunes, that has worked well. Now suddenly when he clicks on a song in iTunes, the app says that "original file cant be found" and he has to point the way to it. Quite annoying to do with every song.
Repairing permissions or re-selecting the iTunes Music folder in iTunes prefs does not help.
Any advice? No ext drives, just plain vanilla Macbook and latest iTunes.

Easiest way to fix that is to find the CD, reload it, and take the files off the other place on your computer. Another way is instead of putting it right onto iTunes, take it to "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Unknown Artist". In there, past the music then double click them one at a time. The file will start to play on iTunes and will save itself under its Artist's name/names. There shouldn't be any problem after that.
Now lets see if you can help me. Call be stupid, but I can't figure out how to post my own topic.
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