ITunes won't add certain mp3s [iTunes 11, Windows 7]

Hi Everyone,
I'm having a very hard time trying to get iTunes to add certain files (mp3s) to my music collection. First, the setup:
iTunes 11.1.4.62
Windows 7 64-bit
The library lives on the M: drive. That is a networked drive that has all my mp3s on it.
After uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, I pointed iTunes at M:\ as my music folder. iTunes created a folder (iTunes 1) under M:\ and started processing files. There are, approximately, 15,000 files in that folder. Half are .flac, some are album art (JPG, etc) and the rest are either mp3, m4p or m4a. Specifically, there are 7,731 mp3s
88 m4as
225 m4ps
After telling iTunes that M:\ was my music folder, I waited about 30 minutes while iTunes went through the entire folder structure, adding files to the library.
When iTunes finished, I had 3112 music files (songs) in my library. Of those:
225 m4ps showed up. None missing here
88 m4as showed up. None missing here
2799 mp3s showed up. I'm missing 4932 files!
I don't know why this is happening. I've tried adding in missing folders, and iTunes seems to go through the motions, but then the files do not show up in the library. I double-checked the iTunes Library.xml file and the added files do not appear there either.
I've searched through various forums (including this one) and I can't seem to find an answer that works. Any help anyone could render would be much appreciated.

Please don't ignore this question, I have been having this problem for a while now, and cannot find an answer. Someone please help.

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