ITunes Permission/Privilege

I have recently been clearing out my Mac, putting things on Flash drives & alot of things into the Trash. I deleted iTunes aswell, but a day later know that was silly as I use it so much, so downloaded it again from Apple website.
And now when you open iTunes and goes to iTunes Store it brings up this message: "You do not have enough access privileges for this operation."
And when I go to download anything it brings up this message:
So I looked up on the web 'how to change permissions (in Finder)' and found out to go to the iTunes Media folder, click on 'Get Info' and then checked if I had write access, which I do:
And it is the same for my folders within it, and it dosen't change anything, (I suppose nothing has been changed, I have just checked the iTunes Media Info ) - so I don't know what to do!
I have tried downloading iTunes application again, and looked around but can't find anything.
Any help would be much appreciated, I can't get anything from iTunes at the moment!!
ATB
Daniel

Hello,
I have been looking at the similar discussions and found this:
hangtenn wrote:
found the problem. in finder, under users, my shared folder had been removed. so i created a new folder, named it shared, and everything plays fine now.
So tried it out: Made a New Folder on my Desktop, named it Shared and dropped it into the Users folder. And now I can download everything fine!
I remember I deleted that file in my 'clean out' as it was empty!!
Hope that help others as well!!
ATB
Daniel

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