ITunes ONLY playing songs from last CD import

What the heck is going on? I am running iTunes 8.1 on my iMac with Leopard 10.5.6 It has been working just fine until this past Sunday morning (2 days ago). My wife bought 5 CDs at a concert. I ripped them into my iTunes, and now, no matter what song I select to start playing in iTunes, out of a selection of over 9,000 songs, iTunes ONLY plays the songs from those 5 CDs that I ripped & imported into iTunes 2 days ago. HOW DO I REMEDY THIS PROBLEM? THIS IS BEYOND ANNOYING!
ANY helpful input will obviously be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

The CDs all imported to the same place as the rest of my iTunes library. Yes, I DO have the "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" feature enabled. This issue has me baffled. It's SO weird!

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