Corrupt Source List

It now takes at least a minute to load iTunes and once loaded, whilst music plays successfully, in Sources, there are normally 9 headings - Library / Party Shuffle / Radio etc. Each of these used to have one entry only. My Source column has duplicated the headings and there are now approximiately 800 entries each - about 3,200 entries!. Deleting these is accompanied by the beach ball which revolves for about a minute for each one (that is each one I've had the patoence to try!) even though each folder is empty.
I have tried trashing the plist file (just com.apple.itunes.plist) but now need further help. I am not on a network so am not sharing others' music.
(Please ignore computer details below, this applies to a friend's iMac G5 running OS 10.3.5 and iTunes v 4.6. For some reason I have yet to fathom, he cannot set up an account here!) He's on a slow dial up connection so downloading the latest version would be slow and painful, but is that the starting point?)
PowerMac G5 DC 2.3 : Powermac G4 DP MDD (FW400) : Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Further to the above, we've now updated to 10.3.9, iTunes 6.0.4 and trashed the iTunes plist files. The problem persists.

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1. You did not get an error message telling you that your iPhoto library was getting full. You got a message telling you that your HD was getting full, right?
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do.
Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.
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