ITunes is unable to edit.

I have some 8500 songs in my library and as I was trying to clean up any duplicates and correct some misspellings; today I find I can't edit anything. But it was working fine as of yesterday. Not sure what happened. I've rebooted the system and still not working.
Anyone have any ideas?

In addition to repairing permissions, you might also want to look at your iTunes Music Folder and make sure that you have Read and Write permission on the folder AND that it's applied to the enclosed folders. (Navigate to the folder through the finder, do Get Info -- or Command + i -- and look at permissions, then click the little gear to apply to enclosed items.)
P.S. To repair permissions, locate Disk Utility on your drive, and you'll find the option there.
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