Music Wont Play

About 5 days ago for no apparent reason at all, about 7000 songs which i have collected over a number of years has just decided that it wont play in ITUNES or in any other of my media players. When you click on Play over a song nothing happens. The play icon doesnt even come up on the screen.
Steps I have taken so far are:
1 - Remove all tracks from ITUNES and then re-add the folder where all the songs are. This has obviously removed all songs, but when I have re-added the folder , it has added about 650 tracks back on to the playlist. These 650 tracks will play. This leaves approx 6400 tracks that it wont play.
By the way all the songs on my PC are MP3 type and I have had no problem playing any of them until last week.
2 - I have re-installed ITUNES and reinstalled Quicktime and that has not worked.
3 - All of my songs are backed up on to a External Hard Drive. I have tried to restore the songs and also play them directly from the external hard drive. I get the same problem when I do this.
4 - I have enabled and allowed all permissions for the account that I am running the PC from.
I am guessing there must be some settnig or Registry Key that is blocking me playing the tracks from the PC. I have also tried to launch the songs in Media Player and Sonic stage but thsi has not played either.
All the tracks are in the folder structure as they were before so I know they are there. I just need to somehow unlock them.......
If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful as I dont want to lose my entire music collection.
Also I cannot find anyweher on here that is a Support number or email address for Apple as this is an ITUNES issue and they should be resolving it for me!!!!
Thanks

Adam Heiden, "I HAVE FIXED THE "iTunes wont play music" PROBLEM!!" #13, 11:31pm Oct 18, 2005 CDT
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