Itunes play lists are deleted every time I reboot my PC

Hi there,
I've recently purchased a Sony Vaio laptop and have installed the latest version of itunes. Only problem is every time I create new playlists, itunes forgets them / erases them when I reboot! I also have to import my library every time I reboot as no songs come up. Any ideas why this is? It's a real pain as I need playlists to organise my huge song collection.
Many thanks,
Miksweety

Many Vaio owners have seen this exact problem. There is some Sony media management software that causes a conflict with itunes saving its library database file.
See Redkeefy's post here
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277

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