ITunes, unable to play most music

I recently installed the new itunes update on my computer (windows vista), but now when I try to play a song on itunes, something comes up saying "the song (......) could not be used because the original file could not be found. would you like to locate?". I have the songs on my itouch, and they work fine, but I don't know where to look so I can listen to my songs on itunes.
Also, any reason why this would be happening?

When you uninstalled, did you remove just iTunes? Or did you remove all of these:
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