ITunes music library goes blank

When I open my iTunes, the music library appears blank - as if I have no music. For quite a while now I have been having these problems! I contacted apple and they recommended uninstalling and reinstalling all the apple applications I had, in a particular order. They gave me this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1925 for help with uninstalling and reinstalling all of the applications. Once I had reinstalled iTunes I imported all of my music back onto iTunes, (deleting duplicates and remaking all of the playlists) and it was fine again, when I opened iTunes all of my music appeared in the library. However after a week, I opened iTunes again and my music was completely gone! It appears blank even after I remember adding all of my music. I called apple again and told them about this problem, but unfortunately they said that reinstalling iTunes was the only thing that they could think of and they couldn't track my iTunes because I have Windows Vista, not a Mac. I really don’t understand why it keeps erasing my music!! I don’t have a problem with adding my music again but I don’t want to have to constantly be adding my music after every week. Has this happened to anyone? If so, what are the solutions to this problem?
I have the latest iTunes, after reinstalling it again. Is there anything I could do to stop iTunes from deleting my music? Or is there a way to save my music on iTunes and for it to not get deleted after every few weeks?! I still have my music saved on my computer but I want it to be kept on iTunes without getting deleted. It’s just quite frustrating to have to constantly add all of my music!
Any help would really be appreciated! Thank you!

It's your Sony Vaio, and I bet those problems started soon after you first ran the Sony Entertainment software that gets pre-installed. This issue has been dogging Vaio owners for over 2 years.
Either download the fix from Sony that makes it stop attacking the itunes database file
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2715
Or turn off the Sony program in your Windows services panel - directions are buried in this long older thread. Set your AD "My Settings" to threaded view to see the whole thing
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277

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