Why won't itunes find my songs?

I have Itunes on my Windows PC (of course, that is why I am in this community forum!).
Since the last itunes update, and for reasons unknown, itunes suddenly cannot find at least half or my 20k+ songs! Most of you know the drill ... the now un-findable songs have a next to them, and when I click the song to play it, I get the dialog box saying: "The song [insert song name] could not be used because the original file could not be located. Would you like to locate it?". I click the {locate} button, go through the process of finding my song file, click on it ... then the next dialog box comes up: "Would you like iTunes to use the location of [insert song name] to find the other missing files in your library?" I click the {find files} button. After a couple of seconds, another dialog box comes up: "iTunes was unable to locate any of your 20,003 missing files. Files that could not be found will be marked with a "!".." I click the {OK} button in disgust! ***?!
I really do not (won't) go through my entire itunes library and individuallly "locate" all 10k+ "missing songs". And, believe me, I have tried EVERY forum, youtube, etc. suggestion (short of sorting and deleting the missing files that one guy suggested!) for an "automatic/systematic" fix and nothing has worked so far.
And, yes, my iTunes song location preferences is correct set. EVERYTHING in the set-up is correct ---- I just can't seem to figure out the problem.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is it an Ituens on Windows PC the root of the problem? Can somebody, andybody REALLY help a Brotha' out with this problem?!

See also this migrate iTunes library post or Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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