New Mac, external music library: "Some of the items in the itunes library, including ..., were not copied because they could not be found"

New Mac Mini with Lion, external disk music library, redirected new iTunes to point to external disk, most songs are fine ( 90% )
But...
"Some of the items in the itunes library, including ..., were not copied because they could not be found" to my iPhone 4.
Out of 4,800 songs, I have over 400 now which have "!" next to them in iTunes listing, but play just fine in iTunes.
After playing them, the "!" goes away. Is there a way to fix all of these at once?
Note: If I could sort all of these in the list, to the top etc, then I could "down arrow, hit return" fast over and over... Any way to sort missing items to the top? Any way to get missing items all in one place, e.g. playlist?

Well, I went through and cleared all the !'s by just double-clicking on the songs. Took a while but worked okay...
Until...
I logged out and back in. Now all the !'s are back, even though the songs still play fine.
Perhaps this has to do with an external disk coming online a bit later than iTunes would like?

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