ITunes cannot find 'iTunes' folder

PLEASE HELP. I have all my songs on an external hard drive and recently upgraded to v7 of iTunes. Everytime I open the program or try and open a specific song i get the following error window:
"The folder 'iTunes' cannot be found or created, and is required. The default location for this folder is inside the 'My Music' folder."
I have an iTunes folder in my 'My Music' folder.
thanks

"The folder 'iTunes' cannot be found or created, and is required. The default location for this folder is inside the 'My Music' folder."
a good place to start with that one is with this document:
iTunes for Windows: "Disk is locked" or "iTunes folder cannot be found" when installing or opening iTunes
... but if you run into the complication where My Music doesn't appear as an option in TweakUI, perhaps try the alternate technique from this Nigel Carpenter post:
Nigel Carpenter: re: Itunes problem

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