Strange Itunes Problem? (Songs Will No Longer Play)

Alot of my songs have just randomly stopped working lately. When I try to play certain songs nothing happens. They won't start playing (and there is no question mark next to the song asking me to locate the file). If I right click on the song and select "get more info" then on the "summary" tab the 4 song details on the right are gone, "Format", "Channels", "ID3 Tag", and "Encoded With." Also the song lyrics and album artwork are no longer modifiable.
I have noticed alot of songs becomming like this lately. I have over 6,000 songs in my library, so I don't feel like going through and finding every song that has been "corrupted" but I have discovered, 25-50+ songs so far, sometimes even full albums no longer work.
The wierd thing is that these songs will NOT play in iTunes or Quicktime, but they will play in Windows Media Player, Winamp, etc.
One thing I've noticed is that alot of the songs that have been "corrupted" were added to iTunes roughly around the same time, but have worked fine for 6+ months up untill recently. Im not sure if it matters or not, but all my music was NOT downloaded from the iTunes music store, or NOT ripped from CD's, but downloaded from limewire, bittorent, etc. Also I'm using the latest version of iTunes (6.0.4.2)
I've tried searching for an answer to this problem but failed to come up with an answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'll try and post some pictures later...
Windows XP

I have been experiencing (or became aware of this ) the same issue since 5/3. I spent a day on and off the phone with apple, itunes and today I finally contacted HP. Of course HP's advice was the same as all other computer sites (Dell, HP etc)....restore or reinstall OS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apple blames it on Itunes, Itunes blames it on Apple, HP says to reformat my pc to "right out of the box" and I am totally numb at this point!
I know this has something to do with ITUNES latest version as that is when all my problems started. Doesnt do any good to remove and reinstall........
I have done the following:
removed and reinstalled both itunes and quick time standalone
verified that itunes was in my safe sites
turned off my windows firewall.....
restored my computer to April 8th......
I have lost 4 workdays trying to resolve this issue. I am at the point that Music match is looking really good!
I know this is frustrating......I am into my 4th drink!, but hang in there until about a million of us complain
Apple TS, I told them to go out to the itunes discussion board and get prepared!!
Doestn appear that enough of us are complaining....or we all have better things to do
Carol in Roy WA
HP m7350n Windows XP Pro

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