ITunes 5 audio loss (loss of sound/intruments)

Since upgrading to iTunes 5 I've noticed many, many songs in my collection have missing sounds.. For example: Monday by Wilco (from the Being There CD) has a horn section track for most of the song. When I play the song, the horns aren't there.... just guitar, bass drums and vocals. Rhythm guitar tracks are missing from entire songs, backing vocals on many songs have also disappeared.
I've tried it with Sound Enhancer turned on and off. The tracks are completely gone when turned on but faintly audible if I turn Sound Enhancer off. Anyone else having this problem? Any thoughts on how to fix this? Did iTunes 5 upgrade modify my song files (all AAC)?

Hello,
Will here. Vic, it seems like were having the same problem. Tom here was nice enough to point me to this discussion so I would have at least some reassurance that I'm not going insane. TP2GO had posted what seemed like a simple enough solution to the problem, but it didn't work for me. Maybe you will have some success, however. Try downloading BatChmod from the macupdate website http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/6440.
TP2GO: "drag the complete Music folder with libraries and iTunes Music folder inside to the BatChmod Icon and drop....
check path is correct.... tick if not already.... Owner=R W X, Group=R, Others=R,
then tick 'Apply ownership and priviledges'... Unlock & click Apply...
provide password... all done very quick..."
Goodluck

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Have you tried resetting the PMU?
I'm not optimistic that this will help any more than the procedures you've already tried, but it won't hurt to try.
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How big is your hard drive and how much space remains available on it? If you don't have your OS 9 installation in order to check out whether it's a hardware problem and you have enough available hard drive space, you may want to try an Archive and Install of the OS in order to make sure it isn't an OS X system-wide problem. If that doesn't do it, you could back up your hard drive and restore your software.
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