Can't get itunes to launch

I don't get any error messages, it just won't launch at all. Quick time does launch. I was searching support yesterday and found a link that helped (for the moment), but it's no longer available and didn't help me in the longterm anyway. I can still open itunes when I switch users, but not under my regular username. I think this all began soon after downloading the newest version.

Having the same issue here after rebooting my machine last night. iTunes opens and shows everything in the library but the spinning beach ball just keeps going and going until I have to force quit it.
I have had trouble with iTunes being mind-bendingly slow to sync my iPhone ever since I put in the latest security update a few weeks ago. And I noticed the spinning beach ball would show up every few minutes and any files going to the iphone would stop transferring and then suddenly it would start again. I had also updated to iTunes 8.2 about the same time, I think. So, I don't know if it was the OS update or the iTunes update that messed it up. HOwever, it has always loaded just fine until this morning. I had found if I shut the computer down (MacPro on 10.4.11) and rebooted then my iPhone sync would work normally ONE time so I"ve been rebooting every evening after all my podcasts were in and syncing all at once. But this time it's different. I didn't update anything or make any changes and it won't run.
I"m just beginning to try to run this down so haven't yet tried any of the fixes and will do so. I just wanted to let all know that there are likely many of us out here with problems who don't know about these discussion groups and aren't posting their problems.
Paula

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Dear Mike
Thanks for the support. I am utterly amazed that after all the hype about how good iTunes is that it cannot play a downloaded CD in the correct order, and that what that order should be is not available directly from within one's own iTunes installation. (I know that one can go back to the iTunes Store to check what the order should be, but having downloaded the tracks surely iTunes is clever enough to retrieve this important information.
My iTunes to differ from yours in that I have also noticed that it seems unable to download copies of my "talking books" in the correct order either. But in my case it downloads them - from a CD - in order, but with the first track downloaded first - so that it appears at the bottom of the column of tracks so that it would get played last! (At least this is, while being inexplicable, a relatively "logical" bit of blundering and because of this is relatively easy to put right!).
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Opera and probably most choral music too, is similar except that the words may well become meaningless if the order is changed at the whim of a piece of ill-written computer code, while ballet music has to be heard totally within its sequential context or it becomes meaningless.
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