Please help- Itunes wont start up

Can anyone help? I installed itunes from the web and when I click the icon, it tells me that the "itunes folder could not be created and that the default location should be in My music". Itunes does not start up. I am on a PC using windows XP. Please Please assist. Anyone?

This problem is usually due to an incorrect registry setting for My Music, see this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1866

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