Help please...damaged itunes library??

whenever i try to open my itunes library a message comes up that says: the file "i tunes library.itl" does not appear to be a valid itunes library file. itunes has attempted to recover your itunes library and renamed this file to "i tunes library (damaged).itl" This message has come up ever since I downloaded itunes 8...and i tried reinstalling it. Please Help!

same here. dont listen to all the "copy paste move rename" stuff everybody else says to do. i have narrowed it down to a tag issue. a name or some info in the tags on a particular song is typer wrong or something. either that or a whole mp3/acc file is corrupted and you need to replace it. next time itunes does this find out what song itunes loads last and see if the next one has problems. I still have the problem, but it seems all my songs are still there, which is a breakthough for me.

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