ITunes update no longer writes purchased songs to external drive

I have my iTunes library setup on an external networked drive. I have been purchasing music from the iTunes store and they have been written to my networked drive until I did the latest iTunes update on 7/18/08 (v 7.7.0.43), now all of my purchased music are waiting to be downloaded in iTunes. The error I have is "You do not have enough access privileges for this operation" even though iTunes is still using the library from the external networked drive and I can do a browse to that drive. How can I resolve this or reinstall the last version of iTunes?
TIA

You say the bar scrolls.  It really is playing a track?  You can see a title and it shows elapsed time?
There is the option to adjust volume on files in iTunes options, as well as a volume equalizing feature.
Have you tried playing another audio file on your computer with iTunes? With Quicktime?   Tried playing one of the problem files with Quicktime? Does your system beep work? Let's see if the problem lies in iTunes or in the files themselves, or in the computer in general (e.g., bent headphone jack -- and you did unplug the headphones didn't you?)

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