Strange Behaviour with iTunes Library.

Hello,
I moved my itunes library some months ago to an external hard drive. Everything was fine. Recently I have started to get '!' next to the filenames - indicating that itunes cannot find the file. Strangely, the TV shows still work it is just the music that doesn't. dI have exported the Library to XML and checked the paths to the file and it seems to be correct and I cannot discern a difference between the paths to the music files and that to the movies &/or TV, see example below:
<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/Volumes/TitaniumFireDrobo/iTunesFiles/iTunes%20Music/Level%2042 /The%20Definitive%20Collection/The%20Sun%20Goes%20Down%20(Living%20It%20Up).m4p</string>
doesn't work; but the following does:
<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/Volumes/TitaniumFireDrobo/iTunesFiles/iTunes%20Music/TV%20Shows /Ashes%20to%20Ashes/01%20Episode%201.m4v</string>
Getting mad now.

please help me out here. does anyone have any idea on how to do this?

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