Attempting to Delete Song Results in iTunes Crash

Whenever I try to delete a song from my iTunes Library (no matter what song it is) iTunes pauses for a second then immediately crashes. I have never experienced this before and it's beginning to become very frustrating. I have just recently upgraded to OSX Leopard (10.5) and I'm not sure if it has anything to do with my recent upgrade but, any possible help is very much appreciated. I have already searched though numerous threads of various topics of discussion and have not had any luck finding anything to help me. I am currently running iTunes version 7.4.2.
Thank you.

This is not a problem specific to iTunes. For some reason, even a clean install left no alert sound selected in the audio control panel on my dual G5. ANY action that called an alert sound, in ANY application, would freeze the app, give a spinning beach ball for a few seconds, and end in an unexpected quit of the application. Deleting a song in iTunes triggers an alert sound and BAM, iTunes quits.
More often, I was encountering application departures with accidental clicks outside of modal dialog boxes, failed Safari text searches, etc. I was so disgusted I created a new install of Tiger and was ready to hunker down there and wait for Apple to recognize this problem and solve it.
However, in my new Tiger install I found that my screen was flashing when I should have been hearing an alert. This continued whether or not that option was selected in Universal Access, and toggling it there made no difference. Clicking on the alert volume slider in the audio control panel also resulted in a flash rather than sound. I selected another sound in Tiger and the alert began functioning correctly and the flash was gone.
This lead to me correctly wonder if this was not related to my Leopard problems and to the the above discovery. I booted back into leopard and found that clicking on the alert volume slider there resulted in a beach ball and crash of the preferences panel. Selecting a new sound solved ALL of these problems.

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