Weird "Groundhog Day" issue.

Every time I open iTunes, all my account settings are reset, and I have to log back in manually constantly, no matter how many times I check the "remember password" box. All my warning dialog box options (ie: the "dont ask me this again" check box things) are constantly reset.
About once a week when I open iTunes, it walks me through setup as if I just installed it, asking how i want iTunes to manage my music and all that. It searches for all music on my computer, processes artwork etc as if I just added all my songs. At this point all my iTunes preferences (sound check, import settings, etc) are all completely reset.
As far as I am aware, (so far) none of my music files themselves have ever been affected by this bug, but the options being reset is quite annoying, especially since i prefer itunes to copy music to the music folder, but this option resets itself as well. Anyway I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this, what could be the cause, and if there is a solution?
Message was edited by: Ijmitchell

All excellent ideas, K.
I think I've come across another possible recovery technique (not as good as a backup, but it might be of some help to the poor folks who get into lost-.itl trouble without a backup).
So long as shadow copies are enabled on the Vista machine in question, it should be possible to get an .itl back using the "previous versions" interface (or ShadowExplorer if the people have one of the Home versions of Vista). I just used that today to get back a Safari bookmarks plist that had vanished for someone:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2640564
... I don't see why the same sort of trick can't work for a blanked .itl.
(I'm not sure why I haven't thought of this before ... I'd known about shadow copies and previous versions for a while, but it just hadn't occurred to me to exploit them in this sort of context.)

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