Problom opening iTunes; .itl file in use?

Hi,
I recently transferred my itunes collection to an external NAS drive, and manually transferred all of the library information files to the same directory. This worked fine for the past week, although saving library data has been a bit slow.
Today when I tried to open itunes, it said the library could not be located. When I directed itunes to the .itf file (last updated earlier today) it says:
"iTunes Library
This file is crrently in use
Enter a new name or close the file that is open in another program"
Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem and get my iTunes running smoothly again??
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks
Paul

Update: I noticed that EVERYTHING in my hd was corrupted, disconnected and reconnected it and it was fine...Sadly my xml files had all been deleted. What course of action should I take in refilling my itunes? All my music, most of my videos and such are on my ipod..

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