Another itunes failing to start post - no error message

I've read a fair few posts like this & so far the one started by theazzi seems to be about the closest.
A few weeks ago Itunes mysteriously stopped loading. The symptom is that itunes looks like it's about to load but nothing happens. The app comes up for a while in in the task manager but propmtly disappears without an error message. Interestingly (related??) a Cannon app that I use for capturing photos from my digital camera started doing the same thing at about the same time. Unfortunately I can't remember what new apps were added or software updates done at the time to work out whether it may be a conflict issue.
I've done all the things in the Apple troubleshooting site to no avail - it is a system not user issue & I've uninstalled and re-installed, I've also run MSconfig to see if it's a conflicting service etc all to no avail.
I've been through most of theazzi's thread things to try but no joy so far - downloading the latest version of the .net framework didn't work on my machine.
Oh, and Quicktime does exactly the same thing as itunes - looks like it's trying to start but fails without an error message. I've also run AVGFree antivirus with nothing picked up as well as Malwarebytes also to no avail.
The event log of the error from itunes is:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 20/02/2010 1:01:54 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ClockStopper
Description:
Faulting application name: iTunes.exe, version: 9.0.3.15, time stamp: 0x4b590a69
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x6e6f706d
Faulting process id: 0x1358
Faulting application start time: 0x01cab1d90e1cdedd
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 4c6da8b0-1dcc-11df-8790-00241dd90cdc
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-02-20T03:01:54.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>7147</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>ClockStopper</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>iTunes.exe</Data>
<Data>9.0.3.15</Data>
<Data>4b590a69</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
<Data>00000000</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>6e6f706d</Data>
<Data>1358</Data>
<Data>01cab1d90e1cdedd</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>4c6da8b0-1dcc-11df-8790-00241dd90cdc</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
I'm running the lastest 64bit version of itunes on Win 7.
Any ideas please???

mine is doing exactly the same as the above...
clicking on the .exe then waiting for it to load.
pops up in processes in task manager the disappears.
tryed to uninstall all apple software and re-installed.
although this didnt make any difference.
it is still disappearing from the task manager!
cant sync my ipod now or nothing...
please help ...
J Ross if you have found a solution please share with me .. i am also running the 64 bit on windows 7!
thank you in advance

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