Metallic blips interrupt playback, cause computer lag, iTunes library gradually depleted

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here's the story friends, perhaps you can help me!
This has not been an issue with any of my other pcs. I am running Windows 7 on a (cheap) Gateway I bought this summer. I keep ALL of my music on an external terabyte and have never encountered problems with external HD music in iTunes on another machine.
Since loading iTunes onto this computer, I have experienced:
-metallic, buzzing interruptions to music playback with no discernible pattern or cause. All programs can be closed, or open, machine can be active or relatively inactive, and i will hear this sound intermittently and indiscriminately, regardless. I can listen to a song on repeat, for example, and the buzzing will happen multiple times in one playback, none in another, and several times again, in different places, in a third playback. This would indicate to me some kind of external influence, but those factors are not consistent either.
- slow depletion of library. iTunes will, after an uncertain amount of time (i have not clocked it because I had not thought it to recur again), begin to lose connection to files. I will open up iTunes and songs I was recently listening to will have exclamation marks next to them, indicative of a missing file that the program could not locate. When I double-click on them, it states it's unable to find the file and when I attempt to find it where all my music is stored, I frequently CAN'T.
Due to this, I have deleted my library, approximately 50G, three times and re-imported it all at once thereafter, each time. The missing songs will reappear in working order, and even those I was not aware I'd lost will return.
I did this about a month and a half ago, I think, and now files are disappearing again.
Does ANYONE have the slightest inkling of what's going on here? I am very frustrated, obviously, because I have used iTunes for over 5 years and have put a good deal of money into it that cannot be transferred to another platform. I would be elated to even hear from someone with a similar problem.
Thank you for reading, I appreciate your time, and any help you may be able to offer me!

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