Error -50. Changes is iTunes cannot be saved.

I keep getting "The iTunes Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occured (-50)."
Any change I make in iTunes, like changing the name of a playlist, does not stick upon restarting the application.
Is there a corrupt file somewhere. How do I fix this to be able to make changes to iTunes? I'm unable to download from the store also.
Not to Apple- A User Forum is not support.

I been having the 'Unknown Error -50' problem ever since installing the latest (V7.3) update. I wonder if I can roll back to 7.2? When 7.3 started up it said it was making changes to the library. Since it is an 'Unknown' error it is my guess the problem is with iTunes itself.
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