ITunes 6.0.4 samples no longer playing

Since I updated to V6.0.4 I cant listen to the samples any more.
As soon as I click on the song to listen to the sample a small window opens up and says "opening URL" a small bar is running saying "Connecting".
After that when I hit the play button the window opens up again.
To make it short everytime I try to listen to a song sample the same window opens up and closes after a while but I cant listento the sample.
Never had that problembefore with earlier versions of iTunes.

Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Quit the application if it's running. Move the selected item to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Relaunch the application and test. If there's no change, quit again and put the item you moved back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Otherwise, delete the item you moved.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

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