Mac Book Pro 15' OS 10.7.1 Lion Applications freeze

Thisweekend spent away from my external Time Machine HDD.
As I gotback the first thing I did was hook my computer to my backup disk...
Thecomputer then starts to freeze and act real weird.
The backupfailed!
So I rebootmy machine and instead of the apple logo I get the following symbol:
Afterseveral boot attempts I boot the thing up in SafeMode (Pressing Shift duringthe boot procedure) it seems to work normaly.
Except:
My iTunes library is damaged:TheError Message goes as follows: „The file “iTunes Library.itl” does not appearto be a valid iTunes library file. iTunes has attempted to recover your iTuneslibrary and renamed this file to “iTunes Library (Damaged)”.“
It still won't backup and the wholemachine.
And random applications such asfirefox, safari, keychain and spotlight are freezing up every ever so often.
Is thereanyone who is experiencing similar issues? I really could use some help.
Thank you!

All recent versions of Mac OS X use bash, so avoiding Mavericks won't help you with that problem (which isn't a problem for most users).
iWeb is another matter. My advise: migrate your website to Wordpress first and start thinking about upgrades later.

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