ITunes won't play my music files now

When I open up iTunes, it will no longer play any of the music files in my library. When I click on any song in my library, the file appears in the area at the top of the window where the song-in-play usually appears. However, it does not start; the little diamond does not progress through the song. The iPod however plays everything fine. I have a PC with Windows XP and have been told that it could be my drivers. I am lost as to what I need to do here. Can anyone please help?
Forever grateful for any help,
Greg

Well anything is better than version 7. It was totally unusable.
7.1 is an improvement but songs cut out for me. The dialio thingy shows that it's still playing, just no sound. I pause it and restart, the song continues. Sometimes this will happen three times in a row then not for several minutes. There also seems to be a clicking sound every now and then as well.
Yes I've tried switching it between 24 and 16 bit, no difference.
It's a shame as I really enjoy using itunes. I think Apple should stop using work experience kids to program their windows products. I was considering buying an Apple until this itunes debacle.

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