Corrupted itunes file???????????

someone please help
in the next two days
i am leaving the country for 18 days and i MUSt figure this out soon. Whenever i start iTUnes a little bubble/message pops up on the taskbar on the bottom .
It says one of my itunes files if corrupt. I uninstalled it , reinstalled, and it gave me the same thing. Once it was UNinstalled, i downloaded it and ALL of my old itunes library was still in there and it was still corrupt. SOmeone please help.
-confused one--

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We recommend using the latest iPod Updater to restore iPod because this will address the file system issue and will also defragment the iPod drive. Although you can use the Chkdsk utility to fix file system errors on the drive mapped to iPod, Chkdsk will not defragment the drive.
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