ITunes is saying it can't find my music when I know it's there...

So... since I have a computer with only and 80GB hard drive, I bought a 160GB external hard drive to keep all of my iTunes stuff on it and that's even where my iTunes music folder is located.
I have about 5500 songs and 700 videos.
But for some reason it started saying it can't find a lot of my music.
Everything is on my external hard drive and I already checked if I accidentally deleted them. I didn't.
Some of my items it still has playable.
I can only listen/watch about 30% of my stuff.
The first time this happened I was about to call Apple and complain but it started working all the sudden.
This is the second time and has been a few days.
Nothing has changed.
I even reset my iTunes folder to the default location.
Then I put it back to normal: computer/WD Sync (F:)/iPod music and video.
The WD Sync is my external hard drive.
That didn't help.
I think it might have been because my computer used to call my external hard drive disk (E:), now it's calling it disk (F:).
And this started happening after updating to iTunes 7.6.2.
ANY HELP?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down the page in case one of them applies.
The further information area has direct links to the current and recent builds in case you have problems downloading, need to revert to an older version or want to try the iTunes for Windows (64-bit - for older video cards) release as a workaround for installation or performance issues, or compatibility with QuickTime or third party software.
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