Help w/ iTunes 9x Unicode problem

I recently upgrade my OS from Vista to Win7, performed via a clean installation. Before blowing out the old OS, I copied my full itunes library (itunes 9.x) to an external drive. Once win7 was installed, I installed itunes again from scratch (v 9.x). After shutting down itunes, I replaced the itunes folder in "my music", with the itunes folder that I copied to the external drive. After restarting itunes i found that all my music, playlists, podcasts, etc...all there. Plugged in my ipod and it sync'd no problem.
BUT, I have thousands of Japanese songs and the ID tags are now all messed up...I just see boxes instead of Japanese text. I tried right click, "convert id tags", "reverse unicode" but it doesn't help. Looking at the underlying files (from Windows explorer) the files that are named in Japanese text still display the file names in proper unicode, but when I "get info" from w/in itunes, the filenames displayed here show scrambled filenames as well. Even my ipod still displays the correct Japanese language tags even after syncing with the new win7 itunes installation.
How can I get itunes to "fix" the way it displays the unicode ID tags?

OK, How about this...
Does anyone else here keep media on an network attached Disk? How about and Airdisk?
If so do you have similar issues? Did you at one time? How did you address the issues?
Thanks. I really feel like this should be working fine and maybe there is one or two things I'm missing.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1389
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Hey guys,
I have had this extremely frustrating problem that just recently started occurring with iTunes. I have read many discussion forums but can’t seem to find a working solution. The problem is every time I try to open iTunes I get an error message that says “iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close.” The same thing happens when I try to open Quicktime as well.
I have tried every solution suggested in these forums. I have completely uninstalled Quicktime and iTunes along with their components (Bonjour, Apple Mobile Device Support, Apple Software Update, etc.) and then reinstalled each of them but the problem still remains. I do NOT use iTunes for my iPod (I do not own one) I simply use iTunes to listen to my music.
I have also tried the methods of installing Quicktime by itself and not with iTunes but the problem still remains. I have tried every solution I have seen. The only method I have not tried is completely removing all files and folders that have to do with iTunes because I am worried if I delete those files with all the music I have bought it will have to be downloaded again or lost.
This is the “Error Signature” that is on the error report when I try to open iTunes.
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ModVer: 5.1.2600.5755 Offset: 0001b21a
There was A LOT more information in the “Error Report Contents” but it would have taken me all night to type it all accurately. If that is what is needed then I am willing to provide any other information about this problem in hope of getting some useful suggestions or solutions. Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thanks!

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