Music library transfered, but it won't play

I am trying to move my music from my desk top to my iBook. I copied the library to an external drive, and then moved it from the external drive to the iBook. When I open iTunes in the iBook, I see all my music and playlists. When I try to listen to a song, I get the following message: The song could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?
Can any one tell me how to remedy this??

Same thing happened to me on Saturday. On my iPod the artist show and my playlist show but songs are greyed out. Something told me not to click ok because I knew I hadn't applied any changes. In iTunes while syncing the capacity is correct but once syncing is finished the correct capacity goes away. Please help I don't have my songs backed up.

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