ITunes Hung-Freezes Upon Opening

Before I go into the specific problem, here is a brief history of what has gone down the last few months, just in case you see the problem there.
November 07:
System begins to systematically fail. Back everything up to an external hard drive, then reset OS. All is well.
Mid-November 07:
I notice that many songs didn't get transferred to external hard drive, usually whole albums, so my iTunes is missing about 250 songs I do not presently possess. But wait, I realize they are all safely tucked away on my iPod! So I download Senuti, Isync, and IpodRip trying to extract the songs. None work. Shortly thereafter, I notice shoddy iTunes to iPod performance, meaning certain songs from new albums do not get uploaded. Later, I get a message saying iTunes cannot be read from or written to. All the while, it says the are X number of songs that cannot be found while opening.
Today:
All was going fine until today when, iTunes library of 4000+ is randomly reset to 55 of the first songs I ever imported. Weird. Luckily, the music folder is fine, and I drag it in (as I never exported a saved library). This in effect deletes the songs that had missing/unlinked files, so I decided to plug in my iPod, conceded that I would never get the songs back that way. However, before I could, it kept freezing up of doing the gapless playback info, getting caught on two songs and repeating the process.
When I did plug in the iPod, the same error message came up. ***. I read Apple's page on the matter, and think it might be related to Senuti, etc., so I delete those. No effect. Now I decide I have nothing to lose, and hit restore button. Now when I plugged in iTunes, all that happens is a few lousy podcasts sync and nothing else. Afterwards, iTunes would not even work, and according to Activity Monitor, would get "hung" right after opening. ***. Please help. Need iPod. Need iTunes....

Haha. I have about 45 GB of content total. (thousands of songs, hundreds of audiobooks, hundreds of music videos, a few movies) I'm using the most recent version of iTunes, whatever it is. =P and my computer is very screwy. I've had it freeze 3 times where I had to restart the computer by holding down the power button, and sometimes the screen becomes covered with noise and the monitor becomes completely useless for a few minutes.

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