Damaged Music Library (every time I open iTunes)

I am having trouble with my iTunes music library continually getting damaged. At first iTunes 6 started having trouble after upgrading my system to Tiger. I then did a new clean install on my system (including iTunes) because I was also having other problems with the upgrade to Tiger. I was still occasionally finding a damaged library that iTunes could not open and thought the upgrade to iTunes 7.0.1 might help. It didn't, in fact, now every time I open iTunes my music library is damaged and I have to rebuild it. I have a large library 12.6 MB and I have added lots of artwork manually. A friend suggested that some of the art work could be to blame but I don't know how to figure out if that is the cause and if so which ones. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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burento
Given that this problem goes back to v6 and even earlier with the install of Yiger, I would recommend that you check your HD as this could be the first sign of trouble.
Insert the Tiger DVD that you used to install, and restart the machine using it and run Disk Utility from there to check the HD.
Regards
TD

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