ITunes 10.7.0.21 problems on a Windows Vista laptop

Hi,
Right, I've been runnning iTunes on my Acer Extensa 5220 laptop for the past three years, with minimal problems. Today, however, and iTunes has decided to totally screw-up!
I recently updated from old iTunes 10.X version (sorry, I don't know the exact version number) to the new 10.7.0.21 edition, and everything seemed fine. Now, however, iTunes won't load-up at all. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
In my iTunes folder, iTunes.exe is now just 9548kb in size (9.5mb roughly). I've tried running the Repair facility, but that just crashes as soon as you hit the Repair button. (Utterly useless that was!)
I don't want to delete stuff, as it will take me forever to re-install all my music, apps, pictures and other assorted files back into iTunes. I've tried various other recommendations to fix this problem, including the numerous solutions in this very Forum (fixing Bonjour, deleting or repairing all pieces of Apple Software, trying the Apple Software Updater, etc, etc), but all to no avail.
I can't even download a fresh copy of iTunes 10.7.0.21 direct from Apple UK themselves, as when I did that just a few moments ago, the 75mb (approx) file downloaded, and created a new iTunes icon on my desktop, but that doesn't do anything either!
What the **** is Apple playing at, releasing a piece of software that is - going from all the problems that people are mentioning on the Internet - clearly substantially buggy and/or problematic?!
Sort this out Apple! This is NOT acceptable!
Pooch

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