Trying to sign into Home Sharing hangs iTunes 10.1.1

Has anyone else had this issue?
Updated to 10.1.1 this morning on one of my PCs and I can't sign into Home Sharing. I click Create Home Share and iTunes hangs and needs killing via task manager.
I've got iTunes on another PC running 10.1.0.56 and signing into Home Sharing there is fine.
Any ideas?

I've had similar issues with iTunes hanging.
Looks like your library is messed up.
I've moved all of my library files from:
C:\Users\[Username]\Music\iTunes
As in:
iTunes Library*
And
iTunes Music Library.xml
After that iTunes was starting up again.

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