Songs relocate, file not found

So I have about 100 songs on my computer that I've recorded from vinyl lps. I recently moved all of the files to a different location, and now itunes can't find them whenever I go to play them. This means that an exclamation point shows up next to the song and I get a message like "(songname) could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" And then I just have to go find the file in its new location and it plays just fine.
Basically my question is: is there a way to resolve this without having to go and locate each and every song individually? It wouldn't help to delete them all and re add them because it would take just as much time to then go through and fill out the info for each song.

iTunes doesn't monitor folders so if you move any files iTunes will not be able to find them.
Can you put them back where they were?
If not you can simply add the folder where they now are to you library.
This will leave you with the dead tracks which can be removed with a script called itunesremovenotfound which you can download here:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/
Download the EXE version and when you run it select the script you want then library.
You may also find these links of interest:
http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/?page_id=2
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/itunes/hack-attack-automatically-sync-itunes- to-any-folders-175161.php

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