Trouble playing music from server after moving house

the music i play in itunes is stored on a different pc, we have a 'music server'. so when i first installed itunes, i imported them and had no trouble whatsoever.
a month ago we moved to a new house, and last week we finally had our pc's ready to use.
my boyfriend had some trouble with the server, but its working now.
the only thing is, that when i want to play a song, i get the popup saying: 'the song .... could not be used because the original file could not be found. would you like to locate it?'
i can locate the song and then it will play, but we have about 18000 songs on the server... there must be a quicker way than locating all songs one by one.
help us!

Hi Michale
Yes im the same person, one account at work one at home. Now i ahev done everything you suggested and still no joy. One thing i have noticed though is that any of my ibooks can share each others music, great that is what i want but on my server. Now i have a server and an intel mac mini both plugged into my router via ethernet, i cannot share any music via itunes from any of the ibooks that use wireless connection. I have an airport express that is also plugged into my router, thus i get my complete network.
I can see for looking why this is not happening, i really would love to stream my, vidoe, pics and music from a central server in my house.
The server is running OSX Tiger 10.4.5 server edition. now when i go into the sys prefs on the server i dont have the option of firewall. As i think as it is a server edition you have use the Firewall in server admin, i have turned this on and clicked in itunes in it and still no joy.
Any ideas.....help

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