Itunes 4 locked up after installing ipod-mini!

I just bought a new i-pod mini for a trip (I leave in 3 hours!), and after hooking it up and installing all of the songs in my itunes (which worked), my i-tunes totally crashed. Whenever I try to launch it now, it says:
"The itunes 4 music library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permissin for this file"
I ran the disk utility, and repaired all permissions. No change.
Please help!

I also had the same problem - Gen 1 iPad and after repeatedly bugging me about the update & not wanting to do it. I went to get an iBook and it told me that it couldnt deliver the book until I updated. I relented and it just hangs up. After 4 attempts to restore it get an error -
"iTunes has detected an iPad in recovery mode. You must restore this iPad before it can be used with iTunes."
obviously restore means delete and reset to factory settings, loose all my data etc etc
"The iPad cannot be restored at this time because the iPad server could not be contacted or is temporarily unavailable" Please try again later."
"The iPad could not be restored. An Unknown error occured (1603)" - So click more information and I get a web page at apple GRRRRRRRRRRRRR  .... http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275
Seriously - I have no idea how Apple succeeds at deliverying this device as mission critical or for any real business use. Its a crash happy device even without updates but now its just a dust collector. Nearest apple store is 120 miles away.

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