My iTunes library says it cannot find my music files

I am using iTunes 6 in windows and I keep getting exclamation marks beside tracks and yet they are in my iTunes music folder. I seem to always be finding them then the exclamation marks start again. It is not always the same tracks, but random ones, sometimes from within an album where it does locate some tracks! Does anyone know why this is? Is it a glitch in iTunes for windows or does this happen to Mac users too?
Medion laptop Model MD95376   Windows XP Pro  

Thanks for taking the time for your suggestion. I tried it and I still get the same error. What I did before was basically what the instructions said but manually. There were some other instructions on the website which were similar to yours, although yours seemed to be more fool proof. I went to the Genius Bar at the Apple store today and they said that from what I told them it should have worked. They suggested to bring my PC Tower into the store. Everyone there had sleek silver MAC notebooks, and there I'll be with my big klunky PC Tower!

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