ITunes Music on a NAS box

Hi all, I am actually going mad trying to work this out so any help would be appreciated (even if it is "it doesn't work like that so stop banging your head against a brick wall").
OK, here's the scenario. I have all the family's CDs ripped as MP3s in a folder on our home lan NAS box. I have a main windows machine that has iTunes on it to manage that music folder and library. I changed the iTunes media folder to point to the NAS box, then selected add folder to library. All good so far and spent the last 2 days deleting duplicates, manually adding albumn art, etc. Shared it using home sharing and even got it playing to a hifi with AirTunes controlled by my wife and I's iPhones. Great!
Until, I accidentally shut down the NAS box before the machine. The first thing that happened was that the library defaulted the local My Music folder but all the library and artwork still remained. Again all good I thought. I turned the NAS box back on and under preferences changed the iTunes Music folder back to the NAS share. After about 20 mins of it going through everything, again all apeared to work. Except when I duplicate files I no longer get the option to remove the file, it just takes it from the library database.
It somehow seems to have lost the association with the music folder and whilst the library points to and plays from it, none of the management functions (renaming files, deleting them appear to work).
Any clues? Any hints and tips for running a music library on a NAS box, so if I do manage to fix this that I don't have to keep repairing it if the NAS gets turned off?
Thanks so much,
Dave

Sorry that should say "when I delete duplicate files" not "when I duplicate files"

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