Unable to locate original files in a second library

Hi everyone! I just got a new christmas cd, and opened my second itunes library (which I use to keep all my holiday music separate from everything else), only to find that itunes is unable to find the original files of all my music (with the little ! symbol next to every song). I'm not very computer-savvy, so the only changes I've made to my computer since I last opened this library in January would have been to run a couple of automatic disk defragmenters. I tried looking through all of my files when the error message popped up, but I don't really know where to start. All of the music in my regular library and the music in the library I made for my father (also not opened since January) are fine, but for some reason it seems to have lost the files in just this one library. I originally downloaded all of the music that's been lost directly from the cds into this itunes library, and I have no idea why this happened. All of the other posts with problems similar to mine seem to be people with external hard drives, but mine is all kept on one laptop. I have quite a bit of music in the library, and I guess I could just re-load it, but I don't have the cds with me and I don't get internet on my laptop at home, so I would have to manually label all of the songs (again!), which would take literally forever. If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate it! Thanks!
Jenny

A followup:  If I copy the files for this album into the local iTunes library of the mini(client) system, it plays fine.  But it still can't play the same songs from the shared library.

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