Script to Batch Fix Broken Aliases?

I just recently migrated from an old PowerBook G4 to a new MacBook Pro and all went smoothly. Except, now in a folder that contains hundreds of aliases of various text files, all of the aliases are broken.
The original files are still present in their proper locations and I can fix each alias one at a time. Examining the properties of the broken aliases reveals that the paths to the original files seem to reflect where those files were located the first time I saved them. For instance, on the PowerBook, I saved some info from Safari into a text file and saved the file on my desktop. I put an alias of the file into a "Research Folder," then dragged the original into a "Clippings" folder. Well, now on the MBP with the migrated files, the alias thinks the original file is back on the desktop (and thus, the alias is broken). It's as though in the migration, the new MBP somehow got an old index or something.
In any case, the bottom line is that I can't accept the notion of going through and manually fixing each of the hundreds of aliases one at a time.
Fixing the aliases is pretty simple logic. The filenames are the same. It's basically search the home directory for a file with a matching name and type and make the new association.
Does anyone know of a script or applet that might be able to do this? Maybe there's another mass fix I'm not thinking of?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Update: For the record, I did fix permissions and run a disk repair after the migration.

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