Itunes won't let me play songs from search results

Hi, I'm hoping someone can please help me out. Since I updated itunes on Windows 7 I have been unable to play any songs which come in as results when using the search feature. This means I need to manually search through the library to find individual songs. I've since updated it again to 11.1.3 and it's not resolved it. Any help will be gratefully received. Thanks!

I have this same problem, however, my search feature consistently works as long as I do not input more than one character. For example: if I search for "ani" it finds Ani Difranco but I won't be able to click any of the search results. If I search for "a" I will receive search results that are clickable. I am also running the latest iTunes version and cannot resolve this issue.

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