Computer won't play music in library or preview songs

Recently upgraded to iTunes 10.4. Now we are unable to play music in our library or to preview songs at the iTunes store. The sound card on the computer works just fine - test with videos or other non-iTunes libraries.

Hi, thanks for your reply.
I tried dragging out the idvd plist, but it made no difference.
The old project opens, and all there is is one QT movie set to autoplay, but preview does not play. When I create a new project of the same thing, preview does not play either.
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