ITunes won't play audio

I recently installed iTunes on a brand new Sony Vaio running Windows Vista. I ran iTunes successfully for the last day or two, without problems -- I synced my iPod, added music, played music, etc.
However, today when tried to play iTunes, I found that songs wouldn't play, no matter how many times I clicked the play button, even if I tried to fastforward in the middle of the song. The same happened for song previews in the iTunes store. The visual on my movies seems to be okay, but there is no audio.
I tried restarting iTunes, restarting my computer, uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling it. I checked my driver software like the FAQ suggested.
Please help me! I want to use iTunes!

I got this problem as well. Seems as soon as I moved to version 7.6 it stopped playing my video audio. My music plays fine, but my video audio is non-existant. It's not the file itself because I can play off my iPod (though not off my iPod through iTunes) just fine. I've done all the suggestions above and NOTHING has worked. Is there anything else we can find???

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ITunes won't play music videos.

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Hey guys, here's my problem.
I had some major issues with OSX last week that a trip to the Apple Store couldn't fix. Their only advice was to save all my pictures, music, documents, etc. and reformat. I did that yesterday. I reinstalled everything and then downloaded all the most recent updates.
Today, I can play all the music I own in iTunes (music imported from CDs, bought from other sites, and music bought from iTunes itself). However, it won't play any of the music videos I have (all bought off iTunes).
I have authorized the computer again and again. When I try to open the videos in Quicktime it tells me that I don't have permission to play them and that I need to authorize the computer.
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Whilst the audio (of the music video) was playing I then went to reselect multiple speakers, which brought up the "*failure to connect to remote speakers network refused connection*" warning, then I unchecked the remote speakers to leave just the "Computer" and hey presto the video came to life.
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