Prob when opening itunes

Hi people,
I recently encountered a problem with my itunes. when I try to open my itunes it gives me an errror about the media library being locked...??? I don't really understand why this problem occured.... I tried to reinstall itunes, redownload the itunes software but still this problem pops up everytime i try to run itunes. please help...
Thanks in Advance,
lord_asian =)

Try rebooting your PC and then look here for help.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538

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