Re-linking songs: anyway to relink several songs at a time?

I have to relink probably 200 songs (out of 3,000 in the library).
I am doing it one-at a time and was wondering if I could point out the Drive where all the songs are and iTunes would be smart enough to relink all the songs?

I had this a few weeks ago. The cause was a script that I used to re-randomise my smart playlists. It used to work perfecly but since upgrading to Leopard it actually deleted huge chunks of my iTunes library.
Using time machine I was able to recover the lost files.
In terms of re-linking your files to iTunes in one go... try pressing the 'Alt' key while iTunes starts up. This will allow you to re-import your library & all files will then be re-linked.
Hope this helps

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