Nasty background echo & scratchy sound..HELP!

I recently upgraded to iTunes 7.1.1 and all my songs get this horrific background echo and scratchy distorted noise, its actually as bad as the screetching sound you get when nails travel over a chalkboard... HELP! (it happened once before when I updated but this time nothing seems to be working!)

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