Itunes 7 keeps crashing and takes music with it

I had to download itunes 7 for an ipod nano I bought but it keeps crashing and all my music files keep dissapearing. They are nowhere to be found. The message that pops up is that the itunes library is damaged and then after I import some music, the music I have redownloaded dissapears again. It also happens with my ipod mini. I have even created an alternate user but it still crashes and I've tried all the hints and tips to find the music. What can I do about this.
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

PabloD I feel for you. That is a terrible thing to happen. It shows that iTunes 7 is not discriminating between "ripped" songs and legitimate ones. Evidently, the issue has not become one that has flagged Apple's attention. I strongly urge you to invest in another drive and back up your files. That was the only way I saved myself from disaster.
Now on a related issue, iTunes has for the moment stopped deleting files, but I am not sure that the next time I do a rescan of my files that it will "find" them all. That is tedious work, as I have to manually point iTunes to every file that comes up with an exclamation point.
I wish I could give you an explanation of why iTunes 7 is acting up like this but so far there are no answers forthcoming.

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