Import of songs results in skipping, file corruption

Apologies in advance for the length of this post, but I want to provide very specific details...
One month ago I upgraded a WIndows XP machine to Windows 7 64-bit. All of the iTunes MP3 files were backed up on a second hard drive in the machine. After the upgrade, I reinstalled the latest version of iTunes, then attempted to import the music files into the library.
This took place without a hitch, but within days I had found that greater than 75% of the files were now corrupt. When listening to music, songs would skip, cut out for 10 seconds, or just quit playing. This would happen on iPods I had set up with these files, my iPhone, and even when playing the files on iTunes on the Win7 64b computer.
Fortunately, my entire library is also backed up on another Win XP machine in the same room, on a network. So I deleted all of the files from the Win7 computer, then imported from the WinXP machine. Mind you, all of the songs play just fine on the XP machine. When I finished importing the 4000 tracks... same problem on the Win7 machine. Corrupt tracks, skipping, cutting out, scratching, etc. It sounded like a bad LP.
Over the past month, I have found that if I delete a corrupt song file, then import that song from the XP machine, it fixes the song. So I can actually put use-able tracks on the Win7 machine. But frankly, I do not have time to import 4000 songs one song at a time.
This past weekend I stripped the library again, then tried importing around 30-40 songs at a time from the XP computer. Same problem. I don't know what the cutoff is, but it's somewhere between 1 and about 30 songs at a time.
I am terribly frustrated by this issue. I have scoured the message boards looking for any ideas as to how to have a non-corrupt library on the Win7 machine. I would like to upgrade the XP machine to Win7, but frankly, I'm scared I'm going to lose my library. Until I know I have a safely backed up set of files that will play without skips, that isn't happening.
Any ideas? Anybody?!?!

I found a workaround for this problem...
I ended up backing up the entire iTunes folder plus all of my tracks to an external hard drive, then moving them over to the new Win 7 computer. I then had to tell the iTunes Library to find the files again, but it incorporated them without using the import process.
This worked well, no more skipping. But, an album I had recently purchased from iTunes and downloaded onto the Win 7 computer lost half the tracks. At first I was really ticked off, because in spite of backing it up EXACTLY LIKE APPLE SAYS TO, the mp3 files were corrupted. Then I realized I still had the entire album intact on my iPhone, so I was able to sync the phone with the computer and move the valid files back on to the computer. Problem solved... though only due to luck.
Apple really needs to fix this issue. I don't what the problem is with Win 7 64-bit, but it's ridiculous that importing files using Home Share corrupts them on Win7 64-bit computers. All that is happening is a file is moving from one machine to another. If iTunes has to shuffle them around and in the process destroys them, that's just ridiculously sad. Amidst all of the horror stories out there regarding iTunes, this is my first negative experience with it personally, but it is a crippling feature that the software engineers should find completely unacceptable.

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