Some songs can't be found-but others in same dir are OK!

It's like this: I moved my account to my new MacBook Pro from my older Powerbook G4. Same dir structure across the board. Only thing I can think of that's different is the CPU...
My iTunes library is transferred alright, all my playlists and what-have-you. Some songs, though, can't be found. I double click one to play, I get the 'Do you want to locate it?' dialog. I open the .xml library file in TextEdit, and the Location for the particular song is the correct one: my song resides where it should.
Anyway, I relocate the directory containing those songs to the Desktop, and iTunes finds the ones that it couldn't, and misses the ones that it could (all residing in the same dir). BTW, the .xml file doesn't change at all through all that...
Any ideas as to what is going wrong?
BTW, I would really love to know how iTunes manages to keep track of all the added songs, when it does work. Up until now, this is what I've done and iTunes has had no problem: place new songs in a particular location, add it to the Library through drag-n-drop, then move the original file to the final location. iTunes is set to not keep music folder organized and not copy song files in the iTunes dir structure. How does it do it?
Many thanks.

Same thing after moving Music folder to an external drive. Some songs were there while others were not. "Fixed" it by re-copying music folder to its default location on the local drive. Now everything plays even though iTunes prefs. point to the external folder. It seems as if iTunes just prefers music in that default location. Will probably re-point back to the local drive and keep it there as this is sch a common problem.

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