ITunes Library Interface Corrupted.

Hi all
I'd be grateful for any solutions to this iTunes problem.
When I double-click a track in my iTunes Library, iTunes skips to a different track.
The original track may then disappear, the album track list may re-order itself, with tracks titles disappearing or duplicating.
Artwork and track titles are also mis-labelled.
See below link. Titles duplicated, but track running times do not match:
http://prntscr.com/2ft38t
See below, tracks appear correctly in Windows Explorer:
http://prntscr.com/2ft3zg
Now I double-click a random track on this album (North Country Blues) and this happens:
http://prntscr.com/2ft4h6
Skipped to a different song and album. Original track gets renamed or moves or disappears from the iTunes interface altogether.
Everything works fine if I work from Windows Explorer and open files with a different media player.
Many thanks.
Ray

Thanks, dude - I'll mark that as helpful, although I already read that article.
Turns out my corruption was worse than I outlined. I found files that had been renamed.
This is what I've done:
I trashed the iTunes folder in the default location ~/Username/Music
I reopened iTunes and went to Preferences and set the location to my external drive array
I then went through all the files and "cleaned them up" (renamed files that needed it - created folders and put files in them - etc.)
Now, I'm going through those folders one by one and reloading them into the Library.
When I get finished I'll do what I SHOULD have been doing all along - making backups of that directory. Hopefully this will solve the problem.
Thanks again for your reply

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