Missing Playlists or Music ? Possible Solution

Question

Ocasionally Windows Media Center ( built into Vista/7 ) and WMP in XP ( rarely had it happen in XP ) updating ( even silently )
will corrupt the Permission Keys housing your music, it will be playable in MS software, but totally blocked in iTunes.
Close iTunes
right click your Music Directory, select Properties, Click the Security Tab.
now in the entrys if you see crap like this
delete them, they will interfere with iTunes and cause both songs and playlists to dissapear, as well as apps and all kinds of crap.
reason being those permissions ( the UUID, and the Account unknown is a corrupted Permission ) is denying access to itunes to read the files and folders.
also you may have to also go into
C:\Users\%Username%\Music\iTunes and rename the current " iTunes Library.itl " to " iTunes Librarybackup.itl "
go into " C:\Users\%Username%\Music\iTunes\Previous iTunes Libraries " take whatever backup library and copy it into the
previous directory as " iTunes Library.itl "
literally this happens every couple of months imediatly after Windows Media Center updates ( i use it for Xbox streaming video, but it has no music librarys in its database ) and i have to go about this to fix iTunes syncing issues. only diffrence now is that i didnt notice WMC update last week, then it dawned on me to check
also sorry if my rambling is somewhat incoherant, lol

Answer 1

the only thing i can say is...
iTUNES 7 *****!
the only option im left with is to use that new windwos media player 11 <- now thats some fine stuff<br>
Homemade wonder   Windows XP Pro   ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, no iPod im still running of the old-school CD player ;_;
Homemade wonder   Windows XP Pro   ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, no iPod im still running of the old-school CD player ;_;