How can I completely remove iTunes?

I upgraded to iTunes V7 and have now reverted back to V6 because V7 is no longer compatible with my Roku music streamer.
Now iTunes looks like is is updating my iPod but not actually happens - The music is not put on to the iPod.
It shows my iPod as only having about 10 songs on it when in fact there are hundreds.
I have 2 iPods and the same thing happens on both. In fact, when I plug my Nano, it thinks it is my 60Gb iPod.
I have re-formatted the Nano but as soon as I plug it in iTunes incorrectly recognises it. It also runs the setup wizard every time I connect the Nano.
Basically is is messed up completely.
I am happy to un-install everything and start again. But I have following the un-install instructions from Apple to the letter as well as searching the internet all day but each time I re-install iTunes it remembers the iPods from the old install and consequently all of the problems mentioned above re-appear immediately.
How do I un-install iTunes 100%? There must be some registry settings I need to remove to prevent the data from being remembered though re-installations? I have searched the registry and removed ALL references to iTunes but STILL the thing remembers the incorrect iPod settings. I am on day 3 now of trying to resolve this blasted issue.

iTunes, along with Quick Time, iCloud, Apple Software Update, Bonjour, Apple Mobile Device Support and Apple Application Support can all be removed from your PC by uninstalling them using 'Uninstall or change a program' in Control Panel. The only obvious thing that will be left behind is your iTunes library which remains untouched. If you want to remove that as well it's just a question of deleting it.
Hope that helps.

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b, i tried re-installing version 4 and got "Error connecting to service manager = 0" error message.
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