Song plays in iTunes, but file does not show in Finder

Bizarre issue. My 26,000+ song iTunes Library lives on an external LaCie drive. All the songs play fine in iTunes (and I can hear the drive spin up when I go to play them). However, for a few thousand of the songs, the song's file is not in the physical location where iTunes shows it to be.
An example is below... these are two song file locations from the 'Master Tune Library.xml' exported from iTunes. Both of these files
show in iTunes, and they both play just fine from iTunes (no exclamation mark next to the song names). Yet only the first file (one ending in 1219.mp3)
is at that location. The one ending in 1249.mp3 does not show in that location, either via Finder, or via Terminal.
From Terminal I get no results from "find /Volumes/LaCie500 -name espace_20101103_1249.mp3" (without the dbl quotes) But if I run the same command for the 1219 file, it does find it in the expected location. Really stumped as from where iTunes is playing ...1249.mp3.
/Volumes/LaCie500/myTunes/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/espace_20101103_1219.mp3
/Volumes/LaCie500/myTunes/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/espace_20101103_1249.mp3
Mac Mini
Mac OS X 10.5.8
iTunes 10.5
iTunes Media folder location is /Volumes/LaCie500/myTunes Both options underneath for "organize" and "copy files ... when adding to Library" are checked.
Thanks!

Try using EasyFind utility to reveal the files.
Are you absolutely positive those files exist? You have verified with iTune's summary view thatthe files is what you think it is?
Show In Finder will usually not only open the directory but also leave the actual file highlighted.

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