Missing music? or not... help please

Hi,
I went into iTunes today, and things have become strange. Here are are some of the symptoms:
. some songs now appear with the dreaded '!' exclamation mark
. when I go into Explorer and look at my iTunes music folder (I have selected iTunes to manage my music), all artists (I think) appear, right up to half way through the letter R. No music folders are listed past R. For example, no U2 folder.
. in iTunes, I click on 'Beautiful Day' by U2, it plays. When I bring up the path, it says c:.../iTunes music/U2/All that you can't leave behind/Beautiful Day
. if I then click on 'Show in Explorer' - it shows the path as well
. if I then try to find the U2 folder in Explorer not starting from iTunes, it is not there - all stops at R.
. iTunes thinks there are 6,000 songs. When i go through Explorer, and click on the Properties of the iTunes Music folder, it counts 5,000 approx songs.
So, some music that should play does not, and some music that according to explorer no longer exists, plays fine with iTunes.
Bottom line - a goodly portion of my music has either disappeared from my hard drive, or iTunes has somehow been corrupted.
Any suggestions on what might have happened and how to fix this?

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