thats a good idea, im going to turn off the clear uploads, and i just deleted my preferences folder and restarted lw. i'll leave it running and report back in a while just for research's sake whether anything's changed. ahh, its nice to finally come ask for help, after trying to figure this out by myself!

hmm okay wait. what is beta? isn't that just for vista? clue me in?
my music files are in my music>itune>itunes music and when it shows them in the library they are in individual folders all say 0.0 kb, but once you open the folders the songs are all there. it doesnt show hits until you open the folders to view the individual songs. there are a few thousand files and they all show up at the bottom left in the green oval. could that be part of the problem perhaps?