I've updated the OP with my current code. A couple of things:

• I'm thinking that I need to test the list of files twice. Once to determine if I need to display the Album - Artist line, and two, to display the actual missing files. I posted the sample output.
• I can also confirm that the Album count is equal to the number of times the Album - Artist line prints out, which is currently 242. This is way off. Again, Album - Artist is printing out more times than it should (per each missing file).
• The current problem is most likely in the first loop, as I tried to override that with a variable, setting it to 0 or 1. That didn't work as planned.
• I'm not having any issues at all with special characters or exclamations, anymore. I had to rename a file to check, but I did so. We're good there.