Strange backwards skipping in iTunes.

Hey everyone. I've been having this bizarre problem with my iTunes. Ever since I had this desktop, iTunes has always been a little off. When I go to play a song, the song is completely skipped over and then iTunes proceeds to go backwards through my entire library, skipping every song until it reaches the end (or rather, the beginning of the library).
I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes several times, I have the latest version, and my Windows is completely up to date. I have searched long and hard through the vast reaches of the internet and I have yet to encounter a similar problem.
Edit: I forgot to mention that the songs play TOTALLY normally when another window is selected.
Does anybody have any clues as to what in Odin's mighty beard is going on?
Message was edited by: AngryBees

It is possible that you have a corrupt iTunes library file.
Try this: Make sure that iTunes is closed and then in Windows Explorer, go to C:\Users\Username\Music\iTunes\Previous iTunes Library and move the files to your recycle bin. If you permenently delete them then there is no chance of recovering any playlists. Now when you restart iTunes, it will create a new library file with the current date (i.e. iTunes Library 2011-01-18.itl). You will then have to readd the songs to iTunes by locating the music directory if iTunes does not find it automatically. This usually happens if you do not have your songs saved in the default location. If you need to locate the songs, go to file, click on add folder to library, and then locate the top folder where your music is stored (i.e. f:\Music).

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