Locked Music Folder/Disk/No Permission

My itunes recently froze and wouldn't respond to the Force Quit command. I logged everyone off of the computer, including myself, and logged back in. Itunes had been shut down during the log off. I tried to start it back up again to see what the problem had been only to receive an error saying that I either had a locked music folder, the folder was on a locked disk, or I didn't have permission to use the music folder. The whole program shuts down when you press the "Cancel" button (the only button available to press)
How on Earth do I fix this problem? I have no idea how anything was locked seeing as I didn't lock anything and the other users on the computer don't know how to lock a folder or disk. I don't know how I couldn't have permission since none of my admin powers have been changed since we first bought the computer and i've never run into this problem before.
HELP!

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Last login: Sat Jan 26 14:43:48 on ttys000
Last login: Mon Jan 28 13:59:05 on console
server:~ aaronhertrich$ ls -aleO@ ~/
total 72
drwxr-xr-x+ 29 aaronhertrich staff -            986 28 Jan 18:20 .
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x+   9 root           admin -            306 28 Jan 11:59 ..
0: user:_spotlight allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit,only_inherit
-rw-------    1 aaronhertrich staff compressed     3 25 Aug 15:13 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@   1 aaronhertrich staff -          21508 28 Jan 19:57 .DS_Store
          com.apple.FinderInfo             32
drwx------   87 aaronhertrich staff -           2958 28 Jan 20:18 .Trash
-rw-------    1 aaronhertrich staff -              0 25 Aug 22:15 .Xauthority
-rw-------    1 aaronhertrich staff -            384 26 Jan 14:47 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x    3 aaronhertrich staff -            102 23 Jan 18:39 .cache
drwx------    3 aaronhertrich staff -            102 3 Oct 20:38 .cups
drwx------   14 aaronhertrich staff -            476 11 Oct 21:19 .dropbox
drwxr-xr-x    3 aaronhertrich staff -            102 25 Aug 22:15 .fontconfig
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-rw-r--r--    1 aaronhertrich staff -            241 25 Jan 19:26 .profile.macports-saved_2013-01-26_at_00:09:10
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drwx------+ 10 aaronhertrich staff -            340 12 Dec 08:08 Pictures
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