Songs and videos grayed out and missing items.

I've had my ipod for a year with no problems and all of a sudden hundreds of songs and videos have little exclamations marks in circles next to them and an error message pops up that says they can't be found. Also, other songs are all grayed out when you go to info and you can't make any changes. Can anyone shed some light on what is going on?

I have the same problem. Mac OS 10.5.3. Intel iMAC core duo. When I upgraded to iTunes 7.6.2 all of my playlists went grey. Both Music and Movie Playlists.
I installed the latest version of quicktime which did not fix the video playlist greyed out issue as noted in other areas of the support forums.
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