Uh Oh...I manually consolidated/reorganized a lot of my 38k+ music files and now iTunes is not able to locate them!

Hi there,
So, I realize now that what I did was stupid...but it's done and now I need to find a solution. I have an external drive with over 38,000 music files so I decided I would consolidate all my music into one location. By doing this, I renamed file locations, renamed artists (corrected spelling, etc.) and when I thought I was done (and so proud of myself), I noticed that iTunes now no longer knew where to find anything.
I searched these forums and the internet and I can't seem to find a solution to my problem. Everything I find involves moving the file through iTunes. Well, since I've already passed that point, I was hoping there's an easy way to help iTunes find my music (rather than album, by album - as, with the size of my library...it would seem like an impossible task).
The other problem I see is, I have several different iTunes folders in my computer. This is probably due to upgrading systems (computers...not iTunes), obtaining an External Drive, etc. I'd like to clean this up somehow but each time I try to...it seems that I make it worse.
Anyone out there able to help me?
Thanks!

The exclamation mark for missing files is shown if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a label change. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use CMD-I to get info, then say no when asked to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive label has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions. I can provide a step by step guide if you give me the two paths.
In some cases iTunes may be able to repair itself if you go through the same steps and locate the lost track. It may then offer to attempt to automatically fix other broken links, which should work if they are in the expected layout.
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