ITunes NOT Playing tracks it used to play pre ITunes 8.1!!!!!

Hello,
I really wish apple had better customer service. It's online support is a joke. I've been a loyal apple user ever since the apple hammer took out the regime of IBM in the 80s, but it seems now it is becoming more like Microsoft in the early 90s.
What the **** happened?
Okay gripe out of the way now. Here's the problem no one seems to be addressing with iTunes (which has a slew of new problems with each update - better BETA testing people!). I have certain tracks in my iTunes Library that played fine until the iTunes 8 update. NOw only certain songs or albums won't play. Changing id tags doesn't help. If I try to reload them into my library after deleting them they will not add to the library any more. Why? Am I missing something simple here?

HI Michael,
If you haven't done this, try deleting the iTunes preference file: com.apple.iTunes.plist
Quit iTunes first...
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that file from the Preferences folder to your Desktop.
Launch iTunes. See if iTunes behaves... if it does, drag that file to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot. Your Mac will create a new pref file for you. You will have to reset your iTunes preferences but at least you'll be rid of a corrupted pref file.
Run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions. That can fix a myriad of bugs on a Mac.
Carolyn

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