Lots of iTunes issues cropping up out of nowhere!

Lately when I plug my iPod in, my iTunes freezes and I have to force quit. Today that happened again, so I force quit, waited a little while, and then tried to open again. I repeatedly got a popup that said "The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file." That makes no sense, because no one has access to my computer but me. Finally it opened, and I went ahead transferring some new music that I downloaded last night. About a third of it now won't play and has the exclamation mark next to it, and when I try to delete it from the iPod, I can't. When I try again to transfer it from iTunes to the iPod, it won't go. What is going on, and why has this happened out of nowhere? Help!
I have checked for updates and I always install whenever my software manager comes up, so there is nothing I'm missing in my iTunes, as far as I can tell.

I wanted to pull up this post, because it keeps getting worse over time. Now the bigger issue isn't the music files having the exclamation point, but the fact that iTunes freezes EVERY SINGLE TIME I PLUG MY IPOD IN. Multiple times. Repeatedly. More every time I try to plug it i, which, since I use my iPod a lot and download lots of podcasts, is quite often. At least every other week. Why does it freeze every time I try to open it with the ipod plugged in, and why does Apple not give a **** about the problem even though I have to force quit repeatedly and I always "report" the problem? Help, please!

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