Missing Songs in iTunes 7.5/Leopard

I have my entire iTunes library on an external HD while the iTunes library file is in my home>music folder. This has worked fine until recently when iTunes keeps giving me the "original file cannot be found" message with exclamation points. Music folder location is set correctly in Preferences and I've tried restarting with option key -- no luck. Some more newly imported songs are playing but the vast majority of the 16K songs are not. The files are not missing from the drive. I have an older copy of the library from Libra which seems to work, but it's missing a fair amount of new music I've added since. I can't seem to get this fixed. I really don't want to trash everything and start over. Anyone else experiencing this/have any solutions?

well, after a permission repair and reboot i can delete songs from playlists, but not the library. and syncing an ipod locks the entire system not just iTunes, and iTunes will not be killed.
did 7.5 get tested at all?

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