iTunes "forgets" song locations

[doctorgonzo]

I downloaded iTunes for Windows on Friday, and so far I like the organizational features of it just fine (before then, I was using Winamp as my music player). However, one thing is really annoying. Songs will randomly become duplicated, with one of the duplicates showing the "File Not Found" exclamation point, or just the exclamation point will appear. I'm not moving songs around or anything; they are in the spot they should be when I do the manual file find. But whenever I open iTunes, new songs are suddenly missing. Can't iTunes manage it's own XML file? What's causing this?

[pam123]

I never run across that one .
You could try the "Repair" function for iTunes, it's in Add/Remove, but if that doesn't do the job take the problem to the experts.
They're here : http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...At.0@.68a50588

Your ID and password should be the same ones you used for the iTunes music store.

[doctorgonzo]

I already did a repair install to try and fix another problem, that being the "The registry settings for CD burning are invalid...blah blah blah" problem, which it turns out had nothing to do with iTunes itself at all, but the drivers iTunes uses for burning music.

Thanks for the link to the forum. I don't have an ID for the iTunes store since I have never bought music from there and have no plans to do so.