Music continually missing from iTunes

I have been having trouble with my Windows 7 Home 64 bit and iTunes. I load in all my music folders, they stay there a few times after opening. I set up all the playlists and then several times opening iTunes they disappear. I reload and set up the playlists and they disappear. I redid my computer and started fresh, even bought a new iPod touch yesterday and still they disappear. Now it happening every time I open iTunes, what gives. I have read and tried everything I can find on the web, but yet no help....
Terry

happened to me on the morning of 30th september. booted up, opened iTunes and iTunes told me it had to repair something and created a 'iTunes library (damaged)'. all playlists gone and the last couple of hundred songs I loaded. the music was luckily still there and with a folder import I got all that stuff (plus some unwanted duplicates I had chucked out or renamed). so far nobody could help (for free - I'm not buying dodgy software that promises to fix everything). I'm in the middle of rebuilding my playlists from my iPod. Sorry. Can't help. But let me know if somebody has an inkling. Volker.

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It's easy to get rid of the duplicates. iTunes menu > View > View Options
Check the Date Added box, then click on the column name Date Added twice. Eveything you added to day will be at the top.
Then click File > Show Duplicates and only delte the one from today.
Do NOT delete both duplicates, or the song will be entirely gone.
As for dragging songs to the ipod, it has to be set for "manually manage music" for that to work. I don't understand about the exclamation point showing up again, unless you were dragging the 'old' reference that got deleted. Tyr dragging over the copy from today.

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My iTunes apps file was corrupted, and I restored what I could. But now a lot of the apps are missing from iTunes.
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