Large amount of "original file could not be found" messages

I'm looking for an "easier" fix to a strange problem - here's the situation:
1) I keep my iTunes music on a separate HD from my PB, and the HD was starting to die (as referenced in another thread - woohoo for DiskWarrior).
2) After rebuilding the directory on the old external, saving most of the music files, and copying them to a new external HD, I launched iTunes. In Preferences, I set the path to the new iTunes folder on the new HD under Advanced.
3) Once I did this, iTunes gave me the updating library message and it worked on that for a bit.
4) iTunes found most of my recent music - some Purchased and some ripped from CDs. However, I'd say 95% of my 12555 songs have the circle/exclamationpoint icon before them, and when I click on them, iTunes tells me it cannot find the original files.
5) The odd part is that all of the files are where they are "supposed" to be. Each song is nested safely inside the correct artist and album folders. Basically, I just have to go - one by one - through the files and reconnect the song name with the file.
Obviously, with 12555 songs, this is taking me FOREVER, and I've made only a small dent in the giant list of disconnected files.
Does anyone know of an easier way to get iTunes to "find" these files without having to go through and individually connect each and every file?
Thanks in advance!

Yeah, it's definitely not working - I'm not sure what "consolidate library" did, but it didn't help the double-file-listing-but-one-is-extraneous-and-has-the-exclamation-point-icon problem. Plus you can't sort that column in order to just delete them all at once.
The playlist problem is extra-annoying because if I delete the duplicate file listing that has the ! icon, it deletes from the playlist, rather than leaving the correct version of the song in the playlist.
Any other ideas? This is way more frustrating than I like my computing experiences to be, especially since iTunes is touted as such fantastic software. If the files weren't organized where they are "supposed" to be, I could understand there being this problem, but the files are all in the correct folders!

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