Music Library Glitch?

Hi everyone,
Newbie here, but I've been using macs for a few years now. I recently updated iTunes to 10.0.1 and now my music library no longer works, in fact all of my libraries are unresponsive. I can still access the iTunes Store and interestingly enough I can listen to all of my music, but it is invisible, and when I try to switch between one library to another, the screen doesn't change at all. If I go to the store, which I have full access to, and then try to switch to my music library, i get a frozen image of the store stuck on my iTunes screen. This is simply bizarre and I'm sure you bright and helpful people know exactly how to fix this.
Cheers,
zeke

Ok, posting again with some more info. I have some screen captures of different screens in iTunes to illustrate the problem I'm having in case I didn't describe it well enough.
This first image is the store page, it is fully functional:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/zekelor/Screenshot2010-11-08at35055PM.png
The second is when I switch from the store to my music library:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/zekelor/Screenshot2010-11-08at35156PM.png
This last image is after I tried to switch to my videos library, its almost the same
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/zekelor/Screenshot2010-11-08at35208PM.png
I hope these help identify the issue. I tried reinstalling iTunes with no improvement. Thanks all!

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