Help! iTunes menus not showing in readible words ...

Hello,
I am having problems with my iTunes. I have had it on my computer since I got a year ago. Suddenly about three weeks ago when I opened iTunes, the menus were all gone. Well I shouldn't say they are gone, they show up but they are not in English -- they just show as a lot of boxes. Every menu on the top as well as the submenus is just boxes. I am afraid to uninstall and re-install iTunes because I have a lot of playlists with 150+ songs on them, which will take a long time to reproduce. Any help?? I don't appear to have a virus (I've run Norton twice) and I haven't had any problems with anything else -- just iTunes. I can't read anything to make any changes within the actual program. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

okay ... it's possible that your itunes language settings have been changed to a language that your PC doesn't have a character set for. try navigating to the change language settings using the instructions from this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=2884399

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