Some of my songs have disappeared from Library

I've imported more than a dozen CDs into iTunes and have been listening to them on the computer and with my shuffle. Now, I get error message on some songs from a CD (but not the other ones) that says, "...the original file could not be found." When I go to the iTunes music folder, I can't find some songs from the album.
Any suggestions? Is there a limit to how many songs can be in the iTunes Library? Would the songs be move to another place on my computer?

I am having the exact same problem. Strangely, the song that was non-existent and had an exclamation at the left, appeared fine the next time I opened iTunes to update my library, or create a playlist.
Play it safe and back-up all your songs, whether they're on iTunes or another application on your computer. If you've a DVD burner, the single layer DVD holds appx. 4.7 Gigs of data. Download all your music files onto however many DVD discs it takes. If you've an external hard drive, send them there. I don't trust iTunes quite yet.
As well, I keep duplicate song copies in my Windows Media Player 10. I've had no issues nor surprises.
Let me know what you find out. And vica-versa.

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