Movies and video will not play on iTunes

For the last two weeks none of my videos in my iTunes library will play; neither TV shows, movies purchased from the iTunes store, or my own vidoes added to my library. Not sure what to do.
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There are many posts on this topic. I stumbled across the answer in a desperate bit of Googling outside apple.com last night. The problem lies in the user interface design for iTunes, and deleting prefs doesn't fix it. The menu bar view->video size options for display size when not in full screen have NO EFFECT on the display size when full screen (command-F) is toggled on. When full screen is on, the viewing size is controlled by RIGHT CLICKING anywhere in the play control box that appears when you move the mouse. The menu you get looks like the menu bar version, but only affects full screen operation. I think this is horrendously bad UI design. If it is useful to have separate settings for display size for full and normal screen view, then BOTH sets of settings should be available in the menu bar version of this menu, and tricky crap like a properties menu attached to a disappearing control box during full screen play should have a stake driven through its little black heart.
iTunes help is silent on the topic. Why anyone would expect to find a right-click menu expanding from a disappearing control box is beyond me. Are there any examples where this idea is used elsewhere and turned out to be a good idea? Where its use is so clear that anyone could find it and no documentation is needed? The number of posts about this problem, not to mention other aspects of full screen play, such as an option to blank or not blank a second screen, or not have the movie and the iTunes mini-player jump all over the place when the zoom button is clicked, suggest that this is an area that is overdue for a human guidelines design review. The movie control box is not a media object, and there is no reason to expect that a vanishing control box would have properties that can be modified. It requires blind luck to find this command, and that isn't very Apple.

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