ITunes can't read its own library/claims damaged

I'm running iTunes 11.1.1 on OSX 10.8.5 on a late 2012 Mac Mini. iTunes 10.x started complaining on startup that the library file is damaged and can't be read. This persists today after upgrading iTunes.
After starting and renaming the old library, it shows my purchased music from iTunes Store, with horribly broken album cover art. I've tried re-importing my music and after reading it all in it is unable to access the saved library after restart.
This began on a RAID drive, and I've the same issue on my Mac's internal drive when I change the media directory.
iTunes can read a saved version from June 2013 that it backed up, but upon exit and restart, it complains that the library is damaged.
Any help would be appreciated.

What's the option key? I think I'm having the same problem, except I moved my library to defrag the drive and them moved it back. And now iTunes doesn't see my info or playlists or anything...

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