New purchases skipping to next track upon install of itunes 10.3.1.55

I upgraded to itunes 10.3.1.55 and then purchased a few new albums. The new albums when played in itunes just skip to the next track without playing anything. When it gets to a video within one of these albums it plays a black screen.
When these new albums are sync'ed to a device the device plays silence.
I have checked the individual tracks for odd start or stop times but none are set.
It appears fine with any music loaded before the upgrade. I have de-authorised all computers and re authorised the one I use to sync without any change.
I have just removed the Itunes program and re-installed. This also has apparently made no difference to the problem.
I have looked under the new purchased button within Itunes in attempt to download again but the "Music" option appears to be missing with only books and apps available.
Does anyone have any other ideas? I've reported a problem to apple via my receipts from the purchases of these albums but have heard nothing back.

Well as I mentioned earlier I had alreayd tried the uninstalling (as per the apple support website).
I went through trying to change the permissions - which seemed a little confusing as although I am the only use of the computer there were about 5 options - but I picked the one that was the same as my user name. Changed most of the permissions for program files and program files (x86) (some of them it wouldn't allow me to change "access denied"), restarted and tried to install again. Same thing happened as before - nothing.
I have never received the error message that was mentioned in that thread.
edit: I don't have anyone I can get the itunes files off at the moment, so I haven't tried transferring them from another computer.

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