ITunes not writing valid XML file

I've been having trouble with my iTunes library being seen by anything other than itunes (iPhoto, iLike etc) and the problem is with the XML file. If i try to open the xml file in BBEdit i get an error that says:
*Incorrectly formed UTF-8*
The UTF-8 File "iTunes Music Library.xml" is damaged or
incorrectly formed; please proceed with caution.
So I dump it and force iTunes to create a fresh copy, but that has the same problems.
If I put an old copy of the XML file (from a few months back) into the iTunes folder, then all the other iApps can see an iTunes library and interact with it, but as soon as iTunes updates the file it becomes unusable again.
The XML file is 30.5MB.
Does anyone have even the slightest idea why iTunes is producing an unusable XML file all the time? Could it be something to do with the size of the file? Or could it be something that's appeared in my library over the past few months that's messing up the xml file?
Any and all comments/suggestion would be greatly appreciated as i'm running out of hair to pull out

Ok, I ran the rest through my parser, and there is (only) one other broken spot. It's on "Donde Liesta Usc (La Boheme)" Also the file location tag. (Shown as "where" in the summary tab of the info window in iTunes.) Deleting and re-adding this track as well as "Need You Tonight" should cause iTunes to correct those location tags and completely solve the problem by eliminating the character encodings that are illegal for utf-8. Both tracks should then also become playable again.

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