ITunes has 'lost' links to songs AGAIN !

I spent most of last night organizing my iTunes library and folder. Long story short, it was in a mess due to being moved from computer to computer, consolidated and re-consolidated, etc.
Today I had everything linked up, duplicates removed, some odd re-naming fixed, and all was fine.
Now I am finding that the songs have become 'unlinked' AGAIN. This is AFTER they were working fine a few hours ago.
I have been meticulously careful through all this work and have double-checked everything.
Is it iTunes 7? Is it me? How can this happen?

Can't answer your issue because I don't use itunes to organize my music(MP3). I use the Finder. I do move my MP3 files to my 5 Macs and get the job done in a few minutes with never a problem.
I rip music, then pick my favorite songs. I delete the track number(working with a copy of the original MP3) and place my 2,160 MP3 files into a folder of my choice name. I leave my other "untouched" original MP3 in an archive on either a firewire drive or another sata internal drive for safe keeping.
Now I have a folder called whatever containing many folders such as rock, metal, jazz, etc...inside those folder of course would be organized by artist folder, album folder then the music.
When I re-do my Macs I just copy my favorites folder over to it. Launch itunes then add to the library(just select the top folder and it adds everything inside). I did id3 tag my favorites originally and also used GROUPING to then have a way to sort all the songs instantly, select all and choose the equalizer. I name my playlist the same name as GROUPING name to make it simple to transfer my favorite into each playlist.
Lots of typing here but infinitely easier to work with my huge collection of MP3 files.

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