Genius Results Can't Be Updated Now. Unknown Error has Occurred. (4010)

I have all my music stored on a NAS drive. Access to the NAS is through a wired network. (no wireless).
I just upgraded to iTunes 8, tried running Genius and I get the above error. All the time.
Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

I figured this out by the way. Try looking for something like the following in the file iTunes Music Library.XML
or try looking for one of the characters.
<string>ï¿¾ä €æ¤€ç€€â´€ä €æ¼€ç€€</string>
You'll find other data associated to that info, like the song location etc. Use that to find the offending file in iTunes.
The XML validator didn't really help me because, while it said there was an invalid character, it didn't tell me where.
By luck, I remembered the location of this particular file. It was the last item in the Genre table in iTunes Library. So I renamed the file in iTunes and re-ran connecting to Genius, this worked for both my MAC and Windows box.
I have a screen shot as well, which I sent to Apple Support.
Apple Support contacted me a couple of days ago and asked for my Genius ID. They just told me to wait to see if there was a fix. They knew about the fixes available in the forums. They didn't say anything definitive about fixing the issue, just to wait a couple of days and see what happens.
You can get the Genius ID by holding down the CTRL key and then go to 'About iTunes' on the menu. You'll see stuff scrolling, to pause, hit the space bar.
Message was edited by: mjrblood

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