One artist yields a continuous broken link from my External

I store my music on an external hard drive, and import them into iTunes.
However, one artist continues to be a pain by importing in, playing perfectly, then the next day displays broken links.
I do not have the original cd, but the mp3s remain intact on my hard drive.
Here are my guesses.
1. The artist is Sigur Ros, and the band, album, and song titles all have odd icelandic characters. I know this should not matter, but it's just a guess.
2. There is some odd link to a different location on my laptop that continues to break the link.
I have done everything that I'm aware of to fix this but alas...
Any thoughts let me hear from you!
Thanks.
Mike

Welcome to AD!
Don't know what version of iTunes you're using, but I also had problems with files that had special characters like Sigur Rós, Róisín Murphy, etc until I turned off the advanced preference to let iTunes organize my files. This was back in itunes 6 or 7, and I haven't turned it back on since.
The files are actually named Sigur Ros, Roisin Murphy, etc on my hard drive. It's the MP3 tags that have the special characters. iTunes kept losing them randomly. Since I've turned off that preference, they have peacwfully stayed linked in my library.

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