iTunes on Vista help

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I'm running iTunes on Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition. It used to work fine but, after upgrading to iTunes v8.0.2, it has stopped working.

When I open iTunes, the following error message is displayed:

The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.

iTunes then fails to start, so I can't even choose a different library file for it to use.

I've checked my iTunes Library.itl file and it's certainly not read-only. My only guess is that it's something to do with me having a non-standard My Documents location (M:\Documents\My Music\iTunes rather than C:\Users\<username>\Music\iTunes).

Anyone experienced this before? Know of any solution? Re-installing iTunes didn't work. :(

EDIT: Holding down shift whilst opening iTunes allows you to select your library file - but I get the same message!
 
Fixed. Turned out to be a weird permissions problem with the file.

Had to go to the file and to Properties -> Security -> Advanced and change the permissions. Bizarre.
 
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