ITunes won't play in Windows Vista

I'm helping a friend with the iTunes on her Windows Vista computer and her problem is that whenever she tries to play ANY song in iTunes, it will not play (the time in the song stays at 0:00, and most of the time iTunes freezes. I have tried:
Running iTunes as an Administrator
Running iTunes in Windows XP SP2 mode
Upgrading to latest verion of iTunes
Uninstalling iTunes, restarting, and installing the latest version of iTunes
None of these troubleshooting steps have worked, what should I try next?
Thanks!
I'm glad stuff like this doesn't happen on my Mac

tried that...comes up telling me it needs to sync and that there isn't enough room.

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