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I thought some pictures might help!
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First One is a close up
http://picasaweb.google.com/faze67/PicturesForWeb/photo#5215194005416379490

This one is the whole plant.
http://picasaweb.google.com/faze67/PicturesForWeb/photo#5215194003972131394

Here is a link that might be useful: Close Up

The close-up shows aborted flower buds at the top of the stem. This often happens when a bulb is only about flowering size, and gets checked in some way. The other picture seems to show a stem, behind the one with the aborted buds, which has died. If that is a lily stem, I'd suspect a cutural problem - perhaps a drainage issue which has resulted in the base plate rotting.

Here is an excerpt from another site about lily diseases:
LILIUM DISEASES

Stem canker causes cankers at the base of the stem. The roots decay as the disease progresses.

Chlorosis may be due to iron deficiency or overwatering.

Manganese and aluminum salts sometimes cause leaf scorch. One half inch of the leaf tips yellow then turn brown. Adding lime will reduce the browning.

Bud blast, is the drying up and failure of flower buds to open. Possible causes are root injury, cold soil, high temperatures during cloudy weather, and excessive shading.

The lower leaves drop if the plant receives insufficient light.