Itunes not playing songs no matter what I try

I have just upgraded to a new imac from a geriatric G3. 1 replaced machine, 2 kernel panics, 1 reinstall of OS and 1 rebuild of iphoto later, I tried to play some music. My music is stored on a network drive which I successfully mount at startup. Initially I could play music happily but today (and so much has happened in the last 24 hours - see sentence 2 - that I couldn't begin to guess what's changed) I can play the first 40 songs in the library but nothing else in the music directories. I can play movies. I can play itunes store samples. If I try to launch itunes by double clicking on the song in finder I get an error -36, but if i preview the file in finder it plays just fine. I've reinstalled itunes. I've trashed the library and restarted itunes. I've even tried incantations and incense. I just want to listen to some music and Spotify's ads are driving me mad. Anyone have any idea what might have gone wrong? I'd be eternally grateful.

I ended up reimporting all my songs. Now I can't rip CDs. I feel another question looming.

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There is no need to download anything to solve this problem.
You may have installed the "VSearch" trojan. Remove it as follows.
Malware is always changing to get around the defenses against it. These instructions are valid as of now, as far as I know. They won't necessarily be valid in the future. Anyone finding this comment a few days or more after it was posted should look for more recent discussions or start a new one.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Step 1
From the Safari menu bar, select
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Uninstall any extensions you don't know you need, including any that have the word "Spigot," "Trovi," or "Conduit" in the description. If in doubt, uninstall all extensions. Do the equivalent for the Firefox and Chrome browsers, if you use either of those.
Reset the home page and default search engine in all the browsers, if it was changed.
Step 2
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist
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from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item named "com.vsearch.agent.plist" selected. Drag the selected item to the Trash. You may be prompted for your administrator login password.
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/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
Restart the computer and empty the Trash. Then delete the following items in the same way:
/Library/Application Support/VSearch
/System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.framework
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ConduitNPAPIPlugin.plugin
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Like a lot of other people, my iTunes (latest version 6.0.3.5 as well as previous versions), would refuse to play certain songs, or, would play only the first X seconds of a song.
I had been thinking all along that the song was encoded correctly and now iTunes would not play it.
Well it turns out that the iPod will not play it either, meaning that PLAYBACK was not the issue, but ENCODING.
I have another computer on our home network...I encoded a CD with that computer (same version of iTunes), then transfered the files to the "broken" computer...with the newly encoded files from the other computer, the "broken" computer plays the songs perfectly.
So anyway, the problem is with ENCODING, not PLAYBACK.
Now I have to go back and re-encode about 30 CD's...the number of CD's I've encoded on the broken computer since the no-playback/partial-palyback issue first surfaced.
We all still have a big problem here in figuring how to get the broken computers to encode correctly.
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You might check and see what codecs are installed on your PC...
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Audio Codecs > Properties
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1886581?

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Frank Nothing, "iTunes 5 works, but takes 1+ min to start" #2, 02:04am Sep 22, 2005 CDT
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b other
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b are
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