Manual management = -50 error?

My desktop crashed a few weeks ago, taking my itunes with it and all my music. Now I only have itunes on my laptop, and I want to add music to it from there, without deleting the music that's already on it. I downloaded the latest itunes, and have selected 'manual management of music'. However, when I try to put music on I get a -50 error and am told 'The disk could not be read from or written to' and the songs do not go on. Anyone know what to do? (My itunes also keeps freezing my laptop, which is very annoying)

I'm getting the same error message, but for a different sypmtom. I upgraded to iTunes 7 today and logged on to the iTunes store, and bought an album which failed to download and reported the (-50) message.
I also tried playing music I'd bought at the iTunes store previously, only to be told i needed to authorise the original computer I bought it on. The authorisation was successful and a message was returned saying the machine was updated, but the second i tried to play the tune, i was told i need to authorise the computer. Groundhog day? Can anyone help? (although it sounds like yesmscheshire's need is greater than mine....)

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