Importing from desktop issues

Wheneve i try to import songs from the desktop, itunes freezes and i get the spinning beachball, (or what ever it is). I then have to force quite itunes. THis happens whenever i try to import anything that is not coming off a cd
any ideas?
thanks

Thank you for the response, Mike
Reinstalling and deleting the threceipts and moving the "itunes library" and "itunes usic library" files to the desktop seems to have worked... Thank You!
I have one quick question though
Now that i have moved the two files to the desktop, what do i/can i do with them? Should i just leave them there, or delete them? Can i put them in another folder on the desktop?
Thank you so much!

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