!!!!! Keeps coming up in front of song names

About a month ago, I noticed that !!! kept coming up next to the title of some of my songs. I didn't know what it meant, so I just started to erase the songs. I don't know why I did that, I'm paying for it now! When I click on the song with the ! in front of it, it asks me if I want to locate the original file. I said yes, and I still can't find any of the songs. I've looked in ALL my iTunes folders and still nothing. I've also done a general search for all mp3 music hiding in any other places and still nothing is coming up that I need. I need help and my warranty is up and now they want to charge me to walk me through the steps on how to fix it. HELP PLEASE!!!

They should be where they were when they were added to iTunes. If you move them about by hand, or some other piece of software like Windows Media Player does it for you, then iTunes will get confused.
Take one of the files that has a in front of it and click CTRL-I to get info. Click cancel whene asked to locate the file, then look at the summary tab. This should give the location where iTunes expects to find the file.
Now use Windows search function and search your hard drive for the filename to see if you can find out where it really is.
List both paths back here, assuming you can find the problem file, and I will try to make more sense of things. I might be able to give my script a tweak to give it a better chance to detect the moved files.
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