Upgrade iTunes 6.0 - ALL Exclamation Points

Running OSX 10.4.2 Quicktime 7.0.3 my son upgraded to iTunes 6.0 yesterday. Now all his old music has exlamation points next to each song. When a song is dbl clicked it says "The song _ could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" Clicked yes and looked in Previous Music Folder but it appears to only be data files. Cannot find the songs. Where did they go? Repaired disk permissions. He only has one computer so I don't think it's authorizations. Please help! Thanks.

To effectively follow what is happening here you must 1st understand what the word 'Library' means in iTunes.
IMHO it is the main reason a lot of people get confused
The dictionary says... with my comments in red
Library
a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow, or refer to : a school library | [as adj. ] a library book. #1 library is a building or room (iTunes Music folder)
a collection of books and periodicals held in such a building or room : the Institute houses an outstanding library of 35,000 volumes on the fine arts. #2 library is all the books, recorded music etc. stored in this building or room (the Data files inside the iTunes Music folder)
a collection of films, recorded music, genetic material, etc., organized systematically and kept for research or borrowing : a record library. #3 library (iTunes Library file)
a series of books, recordings, etc., issued by the same company and similar in appearance. #4 library Podcasts etc.
a room in a private house where books are kept. #5 library your own private collections stored elsewhere, separate folders on other HD's etc.
(also software library) Computing a collection of programs and software packages made generally available, often loaded and stored on disk for immediate use. xml copies of playlists and library files
I am sure you get the idea... iTunes uses the iTunes Library file (tag data of the Music files) to manage your data library (the Music files)
Back to your question "since we are NOT selecting, "copy files when adding to library" this means that it won't copy what we have already will it?....I just want to make sure I understand before I try it."
Means it will not copy any data files to the iTunes Music folder when adding the tag data for each song to the iTunes Library file... if the 'tag' data already exists for any song it will be checked and corrected if need be and the link to the actual data file will be redone.... if any songs are found that do not exist in the iTunes Library file they will be added but as it says above the files will not be copied, they will remain in their present location.
I hope that helps Frank ... if you need any help or anything not clear come and ask ... TP

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