After installing iTunes 10, external drive error

The library which the previous iTunes 9 was connected to is on my external WD 2TB drive. After installing iTunes 10, I played around with the interface for a few minutes, and then I shut my computer off.
This morning, I turned on my computer and my external drive loaded up. But when it opened iTunes and started reading, the external started to be read, and it ejected automatically... and error window popped up warning me that it wasn't ejected properly.
From then on, this kept on occurring. The drive loads up but after a few minutes it gets ejected again. I don't know what happened.
I checked with Disk Utilities, and there was zero problems.
Could someone help me with this problem? I have changed to different firewire cables from very short, to long etc but still the same issues. I don't want to keep doing this as it might corrupt all my data...many years of of collected photos, music, movies etc...as well as a major part of my work files.
This is so sad, and I just wished I bought a second drive to clone the one I have. Lesson learnt.

Let's try a standalone Apple Application Support install. It still might not install, but fingers crossed any error messages will give us a better idea of the underlying cause of the issue.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe, and select "Extract to iTunesSetup". WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup".
Go into the folder and doubleclick the AppleApplicationSupport.msi to do a standalone AAS install.
Does it install properly for you? If so, does iTunes launch properly now?
If instead you get an error message during the install, let us know what it says. (Precise text, please.)

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