Missing songs and incorrect audio configuration

I've downloaded 8.1 this morning it has managed to crash my computer 3 times, 4 of the songs I tried to download cannot be found anywhere on the system however when I try to re purchase the money has been deducted and it says I've already downloaded them, and an error bar comes up saying my audio configuration is wrong so the 2 songs that did download and all the rest of my library wont actually play anymore! Please Help, I've never had any problems downloading or playing sons before this upgrade.

*an error bar comes up saying my audio configuration is wrong*
Have you had a chance to look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: iTunes for Windows: iTunes has detected an audio configuration problem

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Argelius wrote:
Here's my story. I synced my iPod a week ago before vacation (and this was backed up with Time Machine). When I returned and launched iTunes, I found that all my playlists and podcasts had disappeared. I also noticed that on my iPod I had ~4500 songs; iTunes has only 4100, so I'm missing about 400 songs.
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Anyway to automatically relink random missing song files in iTunes library? Random songs have "!" while other songs in same album folder are fine.

I can manually relink a missing song by navigating to the album folder in my iTunes media folder where all of my music is stored, but there are hundreds of "missing" songs in my 100+ GB Library. Any way to get iTunes to reconcile the library in a more automated fashion? I am fearful of solutions that may introduce a ton of duplicates.
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http://dougscripts.com/466"
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