Updated iPad 2 to ios7 - Now all my music has disappeared..

I'm sure other people have had this problem but I don't seem to be able to find an answer so I'm gonna annoy everyone by probably asking this again.
Updated iPad 2 to ios7 weeks ago (whenever it came out), didn't seem to be any problems, listened to music only a few days ago, seemed grand, now hundreds of song gone, boom, no reason.
I know people will say 'Just hook it up to iTunes and resync yer library' but I can't do that. Unlike most people I don't have my iTunes set to sync everytime I connect to it. I have it set to 'Manually manage my music and videos', I hate being forced to do stuff! I don't have iCloud actived, see no point in it. So my music library on my MacPro just has a few songs in it, I never keep them on my MacPro, I use my iPad for music (or did before the unexpected cull).
If I connect to my MacPro, and click on "On this iPad" in iTunes, it's saying I have 1822 songs. It lists them all as if they are still there but every one of them, apart from about a hundred, have little exlaimation marks in circles beside them.
I understand that I can probably track down all the songs and put them on again, but it took me ages the first time round. I don't have that kinda time, especially when I wasn't the cause.
Anyone ever find out what causes this? And was a solution every put out there? Or am I going to have to head up in my attic and dust off all the old CDs again?

Did you actually sync the music to your device? If it is disappearing when your laptop is turned off it sounds to me as if you somehow set up streaming and didn't sync it.
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351 - detailed example: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18860187
iOS: Syncing with iTunes - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1386 - You can sync everything or selected playlists.

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