Itunes resets Date Added

My computer turns off by itself quite a lot and sometimes my library has to be recovered if I was using Itunes when it happened. It usually all comes back but sometimes it resets the Date Added on all songs and it's so frustrating because that's one of the hugest ways I look at and organize my music. Does anybody know what to do, or even know what I'm talking about?

That might be hard to fix. I think iTunes 7 makes a backup of your library. You could try moving the new library (in ~/Music/iTunes/), putting back the old one, and letting iTunes re-upgrade it. See if that works. Could be some obscure bug in 7.
I checked all my dates and they're ok.

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