Library cannot be saved

I receive the message "The iTunes library cannot be saved. An unknown error occured (-50)" while watching a video podcast. Once I get this message, I usually lose my video as the podcast continues to play. iTunes usually will crash and I need to restart iTunes.
I recently reloaded WIN7 and still continue to have this issue.
Anyone have a similar experience and resolved it?

I just logged back in and am checking "My Questions". This problem is in the past, and I did not get back to you - it worked out fine. I have much larger problems now, as I posted elsewhere... My 5000 songs are all backed up... individually. I am having a big headache, as I reformatted my harddrive, and thought the backup would be easy to get the songs back off of.

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