ITunes not downloading All Purchases, though it thinks otherwise

Hello All!
I recently rebuilt my system, and am trying to rebuild my media library through the iTunes Store. I have authorized my rebuilt computer, and have used the Purchased portion of iTunes to run a "Download All" to my system.
While iTunes insists that it has downloaded all of the Music that I have purchased, there are multiple items that did not download, and show with the ubiquitous grey "!" next to the song. Using the Get Info function, iTunes shows that the link to the file is pointing to the old path, before I rebuilt the machine. When I go to
C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\, it does show that several of the songs HAVE downloaded, but many have not (obviously, the ones with the Grey !). So, it is hit and miss: Some of the music has downloaded to the system, while some has not. Checking the Purchases against my iPhone, it does show all of my music purchases, but some of them are just not downloading.
I cannot restart the downloads, because iTunes thinks that the files have already downloaded. Because the songs have not downloaded, I cannot manually tie the Library entry to the non-existant file. All of the purchased songs are still appearing on my iPhone.
Any suggestions or experience with this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

I will give this a shot. I am always reluctant to nuke Library entries, since they are sort of "bookmarks" to what I should and should not have. One thing that is odd is that ALL of the songs were initially Grey !s, since I had reloaded the system from scratch. It is odd that some of them did download while others did not.
I will give this a shot this evening, and let you know! Thanks for the quick response.
P.S: Another oddity: Technically all of the items should have been backed up when I ran Windows Backup before rebuilding. Not sure why this area got nuked.

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