ITunes constantly ignores me

My iTunes constantly ignores me. I tell it to add music, videos, or photoes to the library and it just ignores me. It won't add anything but I can cahgne things around like my playlists. The usual fix is to restart my computer and then it will work once to add whatever I want(but ONLY ONCE), so I would have to put everything I want to add into one folder then tell iTunes to add the folder. It only started doing this recently. Suggestions?

You neeed to be logged in as an adminstrator. Are you?
Right click on your iTunes Music folder and select properties, then the security tab.
You should see a list of users names. Is your user name on it? If so, select it and you should see your permissions. If not, you can add your username.
You need to have full control for your user name.
There is more on setting permissions on the following page
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/security/permissions.mspx

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