ITunes locks up every time I load my library

I just spent the last couple days creating my iTunes library to include only the music I want from my hard drive. I also spent a lot of time changing genres, artist names, etc, so I don't have a huge list of artists on my iPod. I was just about finished when I added another music folder and iTunes locked up. Now every time I open iTunes it instantly locks up. If I remove my library and start over it work fine. I tried importing my library (after moving it to the desktop) and iTunes locks up again.
Is that it for my library and so many hours of work? Is the iTunes database that fragile or is there any way to recover it? I am not used to working with apple software and hence have never lost this many hours of work before. I'm hoping there is something I can do. Is there another program I can use to open the library file with besides iTunes to figure out what's wrong with it? The apple support says to just start adding the files back one at a time, but that is the same thing as starting all over. And even if I did that, what's to say it wouldn't just happen again part way through?
If anyone has any ideas I would very much appreciate it, I'm very frustrated right now.

I suspect that one folder had a bad file that itunes couldn't deal with.
Do you remember which one it was? You could create a new blank library and try adding just that folder and see if it locks up again, then you'd know to look at those files and see if they play in another player or something.
This kind of thing is difficult to help with over the internet.

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