Why are my iTunes songs switched around?

Hi, why is my music messed up in my iTunes??? I play one song and even though it has the right album cover and the right name of the song I want to listen to it plays a completely different song! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?!?! I also have to have wifi now? ***!!!!
FIX THIS NOW!!

Sorry for the delay in responding as I missed your 7/29 post.
I do have a partitioned hard drive and that could be part of the problem. I moved my music files to the D drive from the C drive as my C drive was filling up and I thought this might be an easer solution since I have tons of movies and my library is large.
I don't know how to determine the encryption type. The "kind" on a song that stops playing is "purchased AAC audio file."
Now, my iTunes has lost all my files and playlist's and I will have to rebuild everything.
Do you think the issue could be the partitioned hard drive?

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