Itunes not playing the song i click

I am using iTunes on a Windows machine.  I have been adding files to my library that I had to copy from another location (somehow my library got switched, I think iTunes did it when my drive was turned off one day, or my kids selected to change libraries)  and I had two libraries, one local and one on an external drive.
Now when I select a song to play, it plays a different song.  Seems like my XML file is corrupted - any advice on how to clean it?
BTW, it seemed like I could no longer import songs from a different location, like I have in the past, so instead of losing 300 songs from my playlist, I moved the songs, and then clicked on the ones I had moved so iTunes would "relocate" them.  This worked, but now suddenly my library is all messed up, and the songs are no longer pointing to te correct audio files.....:( What a pain.  Seems like it is getting harder and harder to deal with iTunes.  We have 6 Macs and countless iPads/Pods/3 IPhones/iTouches.....I just haven't bit the bullet to more our music library to one of our Macs because of disk space and the hassle/possibilities of things going wrong.  Thanks for any help anyone has.

PS a little more info - it seems to always try to play music videos.  Also, I just upgraded from 11.1 to 11.2, but it did not fix the issue as likely I have a corrupt file.

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