Upgraded to 7.6 now can't use search feature

I just got a second ipod, a nano, and it required me to upgrade my itunes software. Now I can't search the library. Letters I put in the search field make no sense when the tunes come up. Any ideas???

Well I tried the stand-alone Quicktime installer -- to no avail.
But I did find the culprit (two of them). (1) Itunes is totally incompatible with the RealTek Sound Manager, which came with the motherboard. Disabling the Sound Manager is only half the problem. Audio and video will still not work without some tinkering. (2) The other half is the ituneshelper / ipodservice pair of applications that run in the background.
These two processes run after itunes exits so restarting itunes alone will not clear them. This also explains why rebooting sometimes works.
1. Close itunes
2. Kill any sound managers (the ones that make 5.1 systems work)
2. Use Windows Task Manager to locate ituneshelper.exe and iPodService.exe.
3. Highlight these processes and click the End Process button
4. Restart itunes
Viola! The playhead progresses and the sound & video play correctly. It worked for me: YMMV.
I am guessing that the reason that the itunes started to play and then stopped was because this pair of background processes tried to do something naughty and stopped being stable -- itunes coughs and no playback.
I also suspect that these are needed to connect the ipod. But they are both spawned when needed, so killing them to listen to music is ok. You can sync later. So much for automation.
Perhaps itunes developers should look at the stability of these processes and their interactions with itunes.exe.
custom Windows XP Pro

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