Installed iTunes 10.5.1, now my desktop icons are not showing up properly

The icons that are effected are the taskbar icons at the bottom of the desktop. I use thes to open my programs. When I open itunes the icons will then show properly, but when I close iTunes they again look translucent and are hard to see.This has to be a bug in the iTunes 10.5.1 update. All other previous versions worked fine.

LOL!!! I had checked iTunes before writing this and the music was not there. I check after writing and now it has shown up. It took iTunes about 12 hours to do it though.
Last week, the music I purchased showed up immediately.
I guess iTunes is just not working as effeciently as it did last week. Could still be a bug or maybe just swamped servers? However, the problem that is most annoying to me right now is that all the music I have downloaded since iTunes 10.5 has contained defective tracks that needed to be redownloaded. I do not recall that ever occuring before.

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LOL!!! I had checked iTunes before writing this and the music was not there. I check after writing and now it has shown up. It took iTunes about 12 hours to do it though.
Last week, the music I purchased showed up immediately.
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