ITunes Library will not play off my laptop

My host music library that is on my Dell laptop is not playing. The music list is there however when I click on the play button, the songs do not start to play. This problem started after I installed the latest version of itunes.

hi Alan!
StarDeb has been handling most of the research on this particular problem. here's my latest information pack, but it's probably out of date by now:
b noir, "Is Apple ever going to solve our problems?" #1, 10:28am Sep 25, 2005 CDT
... best to check in at the other thread (referenced in the information pack) to see if there have been any new developments.
love, b

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