Itunes songs keep disappearing

At the top of the menu bar I click add folder to library and find the folder filled with my music. It loads all my music onto Itunes and than I go through it and delete all the songs I do not wish to have and rename all my songs to the right one and than I sync my Ipod to it and my Ipod receives all the right things. Than I close Itunes and reopen it and everything is gone. It's just a black screen with no music. I have done this about 3 times and can't figure out why all my songs get erased and I have to re-import them. If anyone can help that would be awesome!

Katrina S. wrote:
I see you have a Sony Vaio. Your situation is probably due to a conflict between itunes & some pre-installed Sony software.
Read redkeefy's post in this older topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277
Thank you so much.

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George-
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