Itunes 10.4.1 not adding new music files

I recently upgraded my itunes to 10.4.1 and am having trouble adding new music to my library which is contained on an external hard drive. My preference setting are correct, hard drive permissions are correct and have no problems playing any of my existing music. When I drag new music into itunes they are processed and it shows the tracks that I have attempted to copy, but they never get officially added to the library or copied to my media folder. Itunes just hangs there with each of the tracks having the little jog wheel next to it. Itunes isn't frozen as I can still navigate it and play existing songs, but those new songs never get added, copied or are able to be played. If I close itunes and relaunch it, ocassionly I will have succes adding an album, but I am looking at a success rate of 1 out of 10. Where is the problem? Is it with itunes? Is it with my hard drive?
Thanks,
Andrew

Hi,
I'm also still having this problem and have posted numerous times on this over the last few months and it still hasnt been fixed, the only way to get around it is to recreate your library which is a pain as when I have done this not only do you lose new playlists because my HD lost connection to my mac/preferences it decided to consolidate my library and transfer a large section to my Mac....not good! I now also have a problem were when I copy in new items to Music it either creates a playlist or I get a spinning wheel!
Im beyond bored of the new versions of iTunes and I'm thinking of moving to a more stable player as I waste numerous hours recreating library (which is a problem and waste of time) only for it to happen again!
Pointless.
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