Persistent damaged itunes library file

Has anyone had any problems with their itunes library file being damaged every time they open itunes? This started a few days ago and initially I lost all of my playlists. I started recreating my library and all was fine. I even opened and closed itunes several times. But now, every time I open itunes it tells me my library is damaged. At one point it said some of my itunes files were missing and I had to reinstall itunes. I had already done this once when all these problems started. I have searched the forums for similar issues but mainly what I'm finding are posts regarding the Sony Vaio issues. I'm using a Dell. I also have Symantec anti-virus protection (Norton Internet Security).
I'm extremely frustrated with this issue. I am thinking this all started after I upgraded to the latest version of itunes. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

I've had exactly the same problem for over a month. If I'm unlucky enough to have plugged my iPhone in when this happens it completely wipes all my apps, music and setting. Really useful!
Have tried re-installs of current version, old version and the latest version of iTunes with no luck at all. Sometimes it can go for days without falling over, other times it's everytime I open it. It has been working fine until the 8.2 upgrade messed it all up. v9 hasn't fixed it either.
Annoyed doesn't start to convey my feelings with this as everytime this happens I'm forced to re-install everything onto the iPhone and completely re-build my music, podcast and app libraries and playlists.
What would be nice is a way of identifying what's caused it so I can purge the file from my system or get a patch from Apple. Until such a time I'm not using iTunes anymore.
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