Videos cause Itunes to Crash

Everything was fine yesterday, now today all of the sudden when I went to finish an episode of the X-Files that I had started last night, I just got a black screen and when I clicked on it it told me that iTunes needed to close now. I don't understand what could have changed between last night and this afternoon. I do use my TV as an external moniter, but I have been doing that for a few weeks now and havent had any trouble till now, I tried it on this moniter and I still got the same result. What could have caused the problem?

I am having more frequent video playback crashes with Itunes. The videos do not crash when played back in quicktime. Seems to happen at random times and more frequently since last fall. I have an nvidia 8800 gts graphics card, c2d e6600 CPU, 2 gb ram, win xp pro. Video files are in several different libraries c: and d: drives. Videos are .mp4 format.

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I looked through FAQ's both on the Apple site and on Google, and followed the instructions presented, but nothing works other than reinstalling iTunes, (I tried downgrading to an earlier version, but it wouldn't let me open iTunes because it said that the library had been made for an updated version.) Reinstalling iTunes works until I restart my computer, at which point the same problem occurs again.
As per the instructions on the Apple site, I went into QuickTime in the control panel and set video to "Safe Mode (GDI Only)," but the problem persists. Disabling ReadyBoost didn't make a difference either, so I reenabled it.
I've read that storing the video files on a SATA drive can cause problems similar to this. What is a SATA drive, and is there a way for me to move it to a different drive?
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I can only conclude that my hub (quite old) does not work on usb 2.0, or putting the extension cable (5m) straight into my PC causes a power drop / signal loss ??
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