Itunes content disappears

on my macbook, itunes suddenly appears empty, with start-upo tutorials offered, etc. Music files still on hard drive, but where are my playlists?

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Why aren't there any replies here??
The problem seems to be that the files window extends to the left of the left hand side of my screen. All the buttons along the top are in the RIGHT place, but the artwork of the far left folder is mainly off the window (NOT the screen).
I have now reinstalled iTunes on top of the old one. Then I deleted it and started again. Same thing. Then I removed/deleted iTunes again and restarted the computer twice before installing again, at the same time moving anything that looked like a configuration file.
This has got silly, and I am not going to reinstall Window to fix it. Something is corrupt, but what?
Please help!!

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First the iTunes window got compacted - folded in on itself and almost disappeared off the left hand side of my second screen (which is also on the left of the main one). I tried switching the computer off (not saving any changes). No dice.
Then I repaired iTunes from the Control Panel.
I cannot see the usual window on the left showing the connected iPod (Nano 4th Generation) and the content. All my music, videos and podcasts are there in their Windows folders but not nothing shows at all. A strangely beautiful dark grey, totally unpopulated screen
What is afoot - anybody got any ideas?
Perhaps Vista is self-destructing?

Comment on my own query:
Why aren't there any replies here??
The problem seems to be that the files window extends to the left of the left hand side of my screen. All the buttons along the top are in the RIGHT place, but the artwork of the far left folder is mainly off the window (NOT the screen).
I have now reinstalled iTunes on top of the old one. Then I deleted it and started again. Same thing. Then I removed/deleted iTunes again and restarted the computer twice before installing again, at the same time moving anything that looked like a configuration file.
This has got silly, and I am not going to reinstall Window to fix it. Something is corrupt, but what?
Please help!!

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I'd appreciate your advice if you can help ?
I went to sync to i tunes for the first time in several months and found that ALL content was missing from my computer library. My iphone content is ok. When I sync'd my iphone my recent playlists disapeared from it, but nothing appeared in my computer libraries. A friend advised me to re-install itunes, rather than do that I have downloaded itunes to another (new) computer and connected to my itunes account. When trying to download any "available downloads" or "previous purchases" I have messages saying there are no new downloads or previous purchases available. After doing this I went back to my old computer and tried "download previous purchases" and it has started doing so but is taking days!
Can anyone explain a) why has this happened and b) why can't I get content on my new computer ?
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Cheers ..... Neil

Which version of Toast 6 are you using? Roxio made the change with the 6.1 update to "fix" Toast to no longer burn purchased iTMS content.
http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/toast/version_history6.html
"Following discussions with Apple, this version will no longer allow customers to create audio CDs, audio DVDs, or export audio to their hard drive using purchased iTunes music store content."
If your CD version is previous to 6.1 and you updated it after the fact, you could try deleting it and reinstalling it and this time NOT updating it and see if you can now burn the iTMS songs.
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hi, katrina S
I don't know how but for the past three days iTunes has been functioning correctly.
I removed al my music files from the library and put them back to their original folder; reinstalled iTunes and let it go from there. I've decided not to copy my music folder to iTunes as it's now working "correctly." I haven't made any playlists or made any online purchases since reinstalling as I'm wary of it all going haywire again. Thanks for your help. I'll keep you updated on this matter.
take care,
az

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I am using the SDK 4.1.
Here is the explanation of my problem.I am using a detail renderer inside a ADG, which appears when clicking on a certain column.
This is done is AS3 (I mean not with mxlm tags), using the ADG rendererProviders property with an item renderer passed to a ClassFactory.
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Many thanks for your help, hoping it will arouse some lights..
Benjamin

hi, katrina S
I don't know how but for the past three days iTunes has been functioning correctly.
I removed al my music files from the library and put them back to their original folder; reinstalled iTunes and let it go from there. I've decided not to copy my music folder to iTunes as it's now working "correctly." I haven't made any playlists or made any online purchases since reinstalling as I'm wary of it all going haywire again. Thanks for your help. I'll keep you updated on this matter.
take care,
az

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